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Digging Stick3656/17

Digging stick with a broad, slightly curved blade on one side. There is a raised section dividing the handle from the blade. The handle is wrapped with bark, and there is another raised protuberance at the end.

Culture
Coast Salish
Material
wood and cedar bark ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Club3656/1

Wood club with a long cylindrical barrel, short shaft and handle - each section separated by raised knob with another at the end. The barrel is carved and painted with four winds designs, a fish, and a water fowl set between a black and red snake that is wrapped around the barrel. The designs are painted red and black on a white background. The barrel tapers in slightly to a cylindrical knob carved with zigzag designs. The handle is carved and painted with an upside-down face. There is string tied around end knob.

Culture
Coast Salish ?
Material
wood, paint and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt3587/26

Tube skirt. Composed of a rectangular handwoven textile, sewn together on the short edge to create a wide tube. The skirt has a black background with bands along both the top and bottom edge. The band has horizontal alternating black and red lines on the outside edge, and a band of vertical alternating black and red lines, with a yellow line separating them from the centre. Supplementary weft patterning in the centre in red, dark green, yellow and white.

Culture
Chin: Mru
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
“Myanmar: Rakhine, Kyauktaw” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Blouse3587/24

Woman's blouse. Composed of two long, rectangular woven textiles that are folded in half lengthwise, then partially stitched together with a thick chain stitch down the long edges, creating a v-neck opening for the head, and arm holes. Both pieces have single-sided embroidered designs on a dark grey background. Both sides have two yellow vertical stripes embroidered through horizontal rows of red and white triangles as well as different designs made of diamonds in red, white and orange.

Culture
Chin: Asho ?
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
“Myanmar: Rakhine” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3097/15

Patterned woven wool shawl with vertical coloured stripes and wider bands on a black ground. The shawl is made up of two panels sewn together at the vertical centre with dark brown thread. The centre of the shawl along the seam is a wide band of black ground, with solid stripes across the outer sections. The stripes are pink, purple, yellow, brown, and white, with orange stripes only on the left side of the shawl. The wide bands are patterned with wide zigzags or chevrons with concentric circle patterns inside. The right edge is patterned with checkers and the left edge with triangles. The edging is tubular and pink, patterned with yellow and blue lines.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre, dye and aniline dye
Made in
Bolivar, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Club3656/3

Bone club with flat paddle-shape. There is a human-like head carved midway down the shaft. The sides of the face are on the flat edge, with the figure's nose and extended tongue on a narrow edge. On the porous side of the bone, there are two faded crescent-shapes painted in red and black. The shaft tapers in to a handle with a small hole through it.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth ?
Material
whale bone
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jacket3587/4

Man's jacket (sangpon bulaq) with bersang patterns. Off-white jacket with dark grey hexagonal shapes with dots, lines and other designs within the hexagon in dark grey and red. The sleeves have repeating clusters of four dots in a diamond patterns. Each cuff and the hem have two dark grey lines. The jacket has a straight collar with short lines at various angles.

Culture
Rawang
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
“Myanmar: Kachin” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headband3097/19

Brightly coloured patterned headband with beaded edges and long twisted ties at each end. The surface of the headband is off-white with multicoloured patterns, with two horizontal strips of purple, blue, off-white, and green along the top and bottom edges. These strips are patterned with a complex zigzag shape with diamonds in between the corners. The main pattern of the surface is in a wide horizontal band of red, purple, pink, and green stripes in the centre with animal, bird, triangle, and diamond motifs in off-white. The right end of the headband is made up of rows of multicoloured tubular twists of fibre, with alternating colours across the rows and three columns. The edges of the headband are made up of small white beaded loops, and clear beaded loops on the right edge and along the bottom of the tubular loop panel. The twisted ties are thin flat woven strips, with a white diamond pattern filled with green along the centre. The ground of the tie on the right is red, the left is pink. On the end of each tie there are three small loops of beading at the base of two long tubular beads with three more small loops of beading and a worn Republica de Bolivia coin at each end of the long beads. The beaded loops on the left side are red, pink, and yellow at the base and blue at the ends of clear tubular beads, with one large coin and one much smaller coin. The beaded loops on the right side are clear at the base and red and clear at the ends of blue tubular beads, with two similar sized coins.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
wool fibre, dye, glass and metal
Made in
Bolivia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gold Weight3595/37

Human figure standing on a pentagonal (or octagonal ?) base. A cage-like object is balanced on the figure's head. There is a pipe-like object in the figure's mouth; the end of this object connects to the top of a staff that the figure is holding in their right hand. The figure has bags slung over both shoulders and appears to be holding a long shotgun in their left hand. The figure has an oval-shaped head and appears to be wearing a loincloth-like garment.

Culture
Akan
Material
metal
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gold Weight3595/32

Standing human figure on an octagonal base. The figure has breasts and appears to be wearing a loincloth-like garment and a necklace. The figure's arms are curved downward and they are holding a jug-like object in their hands. On the back of the figure is a smaller humanoid figure (likely a child), secured with some kind of fabric.

Culture
Akan
Material
metal
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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