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Frog2004-2/287

The paint is black and green.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, horse hair and rope
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Mask2004-2/275

The paint is black, red, turquoise, and brown.

Culture
Squamish, Kwakwaka'wakw, Kwagiulth Band and Haida
Material
wood, paint, horse hair and human hair
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Mask2004-2/234

The paint is brown, dark green, green, white, and red.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, horse hair, string and abalone shell
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Drum | Beater/Rattle1992-7/1

The dye is red. The paint is red, green, gold, white, and black. The fur is rabbit.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
yellow cedar wood, rawhide hide, leather, rope, hemp, dye, abalone shell, copper metal, paint, gold, fur, rabbit, horse hair, bone and cord
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Basket2770/1 a-b

Rectangular brown birch bark basket with lid. Bark is cut, bent and laced together with reddish coloured root at the four corners. Twig splints around the rim of both lid and basket that are overcast with thin strips of root? and the lid also has interwoven long strands of black hair. Geometric and linear patterns of cross hatching and inverted triangles are scratched onto the exterior sides of the basket and top of the lid, revealing a lighter shade of bark. Lid has an arched handle-like strip of bark attached to the top centre with two X stitches of dark root.

Culture
Dakelhne: Nadleh Whut'en
Material
birch bark, wood, root ?, dye and horse hair ?
Made in
Fraser Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Imperfect Doll2699/1 a-c

Multi-media installation. The doll (a) consists of a wooden artist’s maquette body with brain-tanned deer hide head (no facial features), hand coverings, and dress (with fringes at sleeves and decorated with English and Cree text written in pink gel-pen ink), pink and yellow cut-glass seed beads sewn onto dress and moccasin boots, horse hair braids with white satin ribbon, ncecklace of porcupine quill, brass bead and sinew, clam shell earrings, and a belt with large brass buttons. The doll sits in a chair (part b) constructed of deer hide, wood, and sinew, and face a small LCD screen, which fastens to a wooden base (part c), and plays a video loop, with video and audio footage created by the artist.

Culture
Cree
Material
brass metal, cotton fibre, wood, deer skin, glass, fibre, horse hair, porcupine quill, sinew, clam shell and ink
Made in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA4182

Mask painted white with painted black hair and thick eyebrows as well as a moustache with curled ends. The nostrils and upper lip are painted red, and there is a red scalloped design at the sides of the face. The eyes are circular holes with an eye shape outlined in black, and there is cedar bark as well as black horse hair attached at the top of the head as well as horse hair attached below the nose and on the chin.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, cedar bark, horse hair and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA3587 a-h

Echo mask. Mask has overhanging forehead that has a downward curve, sprigs of brown hair emerging from the top rear of the head, large ears at the sides of the head, a protruding angular brow and hooked nose, raised cheeks and a protruding chin. The mask is painted with light green patterns over dark green on the overhanging forehead, heavy black brows and sides of face, red ears, a black nose bridge with orange nostrils and lips, blue and orange protruding cheeks, a blue scalloped pattern on the sides of the jaw. The mask has eight interchangeable mouth pieces belonging to land creatures (a-h): a) mouthpiece with an open, orange beak-like mouth flanked by orange hands with green nails and a green and blue semicircular design on the back of each hand; b) mouthpiece with a hooked beak that is green with orange nostrils and edges and has a blue scalloped design covered in green lines at the edge; c) mouthpiece consisting of an elongated orange mouthwith a peak at the centre of both lips and a surrounding area of blue and green with green lines; d) mouthpiece consisting of a curved bill-like protrusion with holes in the sides and an open mouth recessed below the bill; e) mouthpiece consisting of a nose with tubular orange nostrils and a mouth with grey lips that are open to expose two rows of teeth, four in the front and six on each side; f) mouthpiece with protruding orange pursed lips and a surrounding area painted with orange, green and blue designs; g) mouthpiece consisting of a frog-like figure with black glass or plastic eyes, a green body, orange mouth and feet, and its legs joined at the sides; h) mouthpiece with recurved green nose, rounded red nostrils, blue and red cheeks with green crosses, a protruding lower lip, and an upper lip that is split in half by the end of the nose.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, horse hair, paint, fibre and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentD2.188

Length of tan-coloured braided horse hair with six large, spherical blue beads. The braided cord has half-square knots (spiral) and square knots (flat). The cord is single strand until two beaded joins where it splits into four. Two of the cords end in a thick tuft of bristle. The other end varies from double strands, to single strand at the beadsand ends in a tied loop.

Culture
Plains
Material
glass ? and horse hair
Made in
Saskatchewan, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stringed Musical Instrument2668/1

Cantonese opera instrument. Two-stringed instrument (banhu) or bamboo fiddle (zhutiqin), with a bow attached. There are two gourd-like tuning pegs at one end, and two strings stretched over the wooden neck, attached to a bamboo soundbox. The bow is strung with black hair.

Culture
Chinese: Cantonese
Material
bamboo grass, wood, horse hair and fibre
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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