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SpearC1519

The tip is coiled with yellow-brown plant fibre, below which, there are the following: six sets of four small barbs; three sets of four increasingly longer barbs; and ten sets of four small barbs. The point is decorated with a red and yellow grass sleeve with a horizontal zig zag pattern, a carved band that consists of two figures (each of which has eyes, a bulbous nose, a wide smiling mouth, and hands resting below the belly), and a fibre tuft. The dark brown wood shaft is plain.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
bone, fibre, grass and wood
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC1069

Chipped blade set in wood which is set in a cane shaft. Geometric designs outlined with string and accented with small discs (seeds or bones). Obsidian blade is a triangle in cross section and is flat along one edge while curving inward to create a point along the other edge. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: white diamond shapes surrounded by red; and three sets of four small discs along sets of red or white diamond shapes surrounded by black.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
resin, wood, plant fibre, stem ?, obsidian stone, seed ? and paint
Made in
Admiralty Islands, Manus, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC650

Chipped obsidian blade set in wood, then in cane shaft. Geometric designs outlined with string and accented with white seeds. Obsidian blade is a bending triangle in cross section and comes to a point. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: red, white, and black triangles and diamond shapes; and eight seeds, along each and in between each white diamond shape surrounded by red.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
obsidian stone, seed, stem ?, plant fibre and paint
Made in
Admiralty Islands, Manus, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt988/12

Skirt composed of a dyed pink stem fringe in two lengths knotted to a plant fibre twine at the waist.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem and dye
Made in
Enga, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC651

Chipped obsidian blade set into wood and attached to a cane shaft. Geometric decoration, outlined with string and accented with inset beads. Obsidian blade is triangular in cross section and comes to a point. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: red, white, and black triangles; a red pyramid carved with a downward pointing white leaf point on all four sides; and four sets of four seeds around red, white, and black trapezoids.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
obsidian stone, resin, stem ?, seed, plant fibre, wood and paint
Made in
Admiralty Islands, Manus, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1448/32

Tapa cloth in a rectangular shape and painted with seven panels, each with bands of zigzag lines that have double hooked shapes emerging from the points and several v shapes, all in light brown and dark grey. The panels each have a border.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1448/7

Tapa cloth painted with four rows of three sets of two rough triangle shapes with diagonal lines between and around them, each row divided by two bands and a band at each shorter end, all in reddish-brown outlined in black.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC648

Chipped blade set into wood, then into cane shaft. Binding is decorated with black, red, and white triangles outlined with string and accented with white seeds. Obsidian blade is rectangular and angles along the edge to create a point at one side end. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: red, white, and black triangles and diamond shapes; and six seeds, one at either end and in between each white diamond shape surrounded by red.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
obsidian stone, seed, stem ?, wood, plant fibre and paint
Made in
Admiralty Islands, Manus, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance Skirt1448/18

Dance skirt woven from grass(?) with a seam along the centre and bands of open weave with a diamond motif. Fringes along edges.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt814/4

Skirt composed of shredded banana leaf with a strip of shorter fringe at the top front and a longer fringe behind, both knotted to the brown bark (?) waistband. Vertical bands of dyed leaf in purple, orange, yellow and green.

Culture
Trobriand
Material
banana leaf and dye
Made in
Losuia, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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