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Long ArrowC1356

The shaft is carved without linear designs. The base of the shaft, near the pointed end, is knot-wrapped with fibre strips. The brown point is painted with a black and red design consisting of horizontal lines.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, fibre and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Long ArrowC1354

The shaft is carved with dark vertically linear designs on a natural background above six of the cane joints. The end of the shaft is notched and wrapped with fibre. The base of the shaft, near the pointed end, has a reddish horizontally linear design. The point is plain dark wood.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC1748 a-z

Plain shafts with points in the shape of multiple stacked cones. Some have bands of geometric design emphasized with white pigment. There are traces of red paint on some points. Part a: five stacked cones having the smallest ones in the middle with three rings; b: three stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with six rings; c: four stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with a horizontal row of diagonal grooved lines; d: four stacked cones having the smallest ones in the middle with one ring; e: five stacked cones having the smallest in the middle with two rings; f: three stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with one ring; g: four stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with five rings; h: six stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with a double-diamond pattern; i: six stacked cones having the smallest in the middle with two rings; j: four stacked cones having the smallest ones in the middle with two rings; k: five stacked cones having the smallest ones in the middle without rings; l: five stacked cones having the smallest ones in the middle with two rings; m: five stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with four zig zag rings; n: four stacked cones having the smallest two in the middle with three rings; o: four stacked cones having the smallest two in the middle with four rings; p: four stacked cones having the smallest two in the middle with a horizontal row of diagonal grooved lines; q: four stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with three rings; r: five stacked cones having the smallest in the middle with two rings; s: five stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with three rings; t: five stacked cones having the two smallest below the longest top point with chevron notching; u: four stacked cones having the smallest in the middle with a horizontal row of grooved diagonal lines; v: five stacked cones progressing shorter toward the top with four rings; w: six stacked cones having the smallest in the middle with seven rings in addition to a dark vertically dashed linear design; x: four stacked cones having the smallest in the middle with three rings; y: four stacked cones having the smallest in the middle with four rings; and z: five stacked cones having the smallest in the middle with one ring.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, stem ?, fibre, paint and pigment
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookIe456

Carved wooden yipwon (hook figure). A relatively flat long wood piece with a diamond-shaped knob at one end and four prong-like protrusions at the other end. Carved with a face underneath the end with the four prong-like protrusions. Seven holes carved out along the length of the wood piece.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood
Made in
East Sepik, Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltC630

A long very wide strip of coiled bark carved with geometric designs emphasized with white. The design consists of an alternating pattern of compressed six-pointed stars and four-pointed stars each having a dot with a double outline at its centre. The border consists of an inner horizontal line of notches and an outer horizontal line of zig zags.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bark, fibre and clay
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlC592

A big brown wood bowl that has a hemispherical shape with a raised ridge at rim, which has a zig zag border pattern all around the edge emphasized with white pigment. Two holes are made at the rim on opposite sides to each other.

Culture
Massim
Material
wood
Made in
Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlC979

A small brown wood bowl carved in the shape of a tortoise. Carved designs filled with white lime. The head has circular eyes and a mouth. The body is outlined with a segmented tubular pattern having a circle at the front, the back, and in the middle of each side. While the front legs are shorter than the back legs, they are all have a swirled partial feather-like design.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
lime mineral and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureC1754

A fragment of a figure (the head only). Carved and painted with white and red. The forehead is a downward pointing triangle which meets in between the upward pointing triangular eyebrows. The eyes are upraised ovals. The nose is long, and the mouth is oval surrounded by a line. The face is outlined with red. The chin is rounded. There is a small rounded cylindrical protrusion at the neck area. The back is hollowed out where there is a horizontal bar.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskC1375

A dark brown-black wood mask carved with geometric linear designs filled with lime, and having black, red, and white colourings. The head tapers upward and is decorated with grooved curvi-linear designs consisting of white inverted u-shapes and red tear-drop shapes. The cowrie shell eyes have a red u-line underneath and high upraised eyebrows above. The cheeks have red dots outlined with white. The face is outlined with a white-gorooved line, below which, there is a red-grooved u-shaped mouth and a pointed chin. There is a grass tassel knotted through the red-outlined nose. The pointed beard is carved with white-grooved curvi-linear lines which swirl around the bottom.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
clay, grass fibre, cowrie shell and wood
Made in
Wabag, Enga, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowC877

The shaft is without linear designs above the cane joints. The base of the shaft, near the pointed end, is wrapped with an alternating natural and red coloured thin cane strips. The point is plain dark wood with a coil-wrapped tip.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stem ? and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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