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Game Pieces1042/18 a-b

Two halves (parts a-b) of a cream-coloured clam shell, used for kaiawase (貝合わせ), a shell matching game. The interiors are predominantly painted gold, with painted images of uchide no kozuchi (打ち出の小槌), a legendary magic hammer in the centre, with a different coloured sack at each side. A horizontal green band across the middle represents a river. The shells have polished, natural exteriors.

Culture
Japanese
Material
clam shell and paint
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Painted Shell527/20

An oval shell painted on the inside with a stylized yellow, red, black, and white fish on a black background with a rim of yellow rectangles that have a red centre and are outlined with black and have a red circle at either sides.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
clam shell and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Game Pieces1042/21 a-b

Two halves (parts a-b) of a cream coloured clam shell, used for kaiawase (貝合わせ), a shell matching game. The interiors are predominantly painted gold, and both have painted images of leaves, flowers and a partition-like structure, beside a horizontal band of green across the middle, representing a river. Polished natural shell exteriors.

Culture
Japanese
Material
clam shell and paint
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Game Pieces1042/19 a-b

Two halves (parts a-b) of a cream-coloured clam shell, used for kaiawase (貝合わせ), a shell matching game. Interiors are predominantly painted gold; both have painted images of small white bird sitting on a branch near a horizontal band of green river. The shells have polished, natural exteriors.

Culture
Japanese
Material
clam shell and paint
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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GameEd5.3073 a-o

Part a is a loosely woven yellow cloth, with each pair of corners tied at the sides; used to hold pairs of clam shells for kaiawase (貝合わせ), a shell matching game; the cloth has black calligraphy on the outside. There are seven pairs of cream coloured clam shells (parts b-o), with matching scenes painted on gold paper glued to the insides. The gold paper has dots and geometric patterns; each shell has a horizontal greenish band across it representing a river. The first pair (pts b-c) have red and blue flowers on the upper side. The next pair (pts d-e) have a branch with flowers and two white and black birds with red breasts on the upper half. The third (pts f-g) have brown grass and red and blue flowers in the upper half. The fourth pair (pts h-i) have red and blue flower sprays in the upper half, and the gold is rubbed off in a few places. The fifth pair (pts j-k) have a fence with blue and red flowers above. The sixth (pts l-m) have a brown log-like feature. The last pair (pts n-o) have three white flowers and one red flower in the upper section. Parts b-o have polished, natural shell exteriors.

Culture
Japanese
Material
cotton fibre, paper, paint, adhesive and clam shell
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadbandIe408

A band of brown string wound over wood, tapering to two arms with loops, one fitted through the other. The top feathers are red, green, yellow, white, blue, and grey and decorate the wide part. Cowrie shells line the lower edge. Below, on strings, there are hanging two lines of small cowries, two single cowrie shells and two fragments of other shells.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, parrot feather, clam shell ?, cowrie shell and nettle fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceA17178

Necklace made of small grey/white circular pieces of clam shells with holes drilled in centre for stringing. The shells are strung on a black piece of cotton thread tied at each end.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
clam shell and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceA17181

Clam shells cut to a circular form, smoothed and drilled for stringing; stung in a circle on black string.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
fibre and clam shell
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentC165

A flat, white shell disc with a carved tortoise shell attached to the top of the shell by the twisted fibre string. Tortoise shell has a bilaterally symmetrical pierced design that consists of five tapering ovals with four radiating lines below.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
tortoise shell, fibre and clam shell
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentC170

A wide, circular piece of white shell, carved in a bracelet-like shape.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
clam shell
Made in
New Georgia, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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