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Fly Whisk1373/71

Ornamented, gold leaf covered handle with a long tail of horse hair attached to it. Top of handle has a flared, circular knob upon which a carved, golden rooster sits. Hair is bound in red fabric with two bands of green string at the juncture with the handle.

Culture
West African
Material
wood, horse hair ?, gold metal and fibre
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ornament1060/39

Ornamental chain of black and white horse hair with an arrow head pendant at one end of the loop and a braided hair clasp at the other end.

Culture
Plains
Material
horse hair and stone
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatEd1.293

Hat with slightly curved brim and cylindrical crown that tapers slightly from its base to a flat crown. The structure of the hat is formed by fine split bamboo. Top of crown made of two layers of fine woven horse hair (?); outer layer of sides of crown and top of brim have one layer of the same material. Sides of crown and underside of brim lined with a layer of diagonal weave horse hair or coarse split bamboo. Four lines of stitching on sides of crown forming a cross at top. Small remnants of ribbon tie at side.

Culture
Korean
Material
horse hair, paste adhesive, bamboo grass, ramie fibre and lacquer
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DollN3.61

Doll representing a male figure carved out of wood with articulated shoulders and ankles. His face and hands are painted white with hair, eyebrows and eyes painted in black, and a mouth painted in pink. A braid hangs down his back, tied at the top with a long black ribbon on one half of which are adhered four square gold decorative elements. He wears a very pale blue hip-length silk jacket lined in white, lapped to his right and tied at the waist with a separate pink sash tied in a single-loop bow. The sleeves of the jacket are made of parallel bands of various bright colours. The jacket has a self-facing at the neck and a narrower white facing. Under it is a white cotton jacket that is slightly shorter. The figure wears full white cotton pants tucked into ankle wrappings which extend over white socks.

Culture
Korean
Material
wood, paint, fibre, silk fibre, cotton fibre, dye, horse hair ?, paste adhesive and paper
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatEd1.302 a-b

Hat (a) made of two layers of finely woven black horsehair with a slightly tapering cylindrical crown, and a broad circular brim. Woven on circles of thin strips of split bamboo at the top of the crown, the base of crown, and the outer brim. Chin straps are of black silk lace ribbon. The separate hat lining (b) is made of more coarsely woven black horsehair that has a seam at the top and has a cord across the centre back to gather and fit to the head.

Culture
Korean
Material
horse hair, silk fibre, dye, bamboo grass and lacquer
Made in
Andong, Kyongsang-Pukto, Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Official Emergency HatEd1.283

Official emergency hat with flat round brim attached to crown shaped like truncated cone. Inside of hat is made of paper painted black, with a woven texture showing. Outside of hat is covered with fine red silk, with edges trimmed with red paper, and with vertical strips of red paper on each side of the crown, at the bottom of which are small red tubes. On the underside of the brim from the tubes and strips are attached two red silk ribbons that are tied together. Crown of hat projects slightly below its point of insertion into the brim. Brim is somewhat wavy and has black and brown stains.

Culture
Korean
Material
bamboo grass ?, horse hair ?, paper, silk fibre, lacquer, paste adhesive and paint
Made in
Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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GuitarNi64

Small roughly shaped guitar has rectangular head. Five pegs on underside extend through to top, with peg in each corner and at centre. Ends of three horsehair and two metal strings are wrapped around pegs, opposite ends are wrapped and tied around the bridge which is glued to the lower body. Four twisted palm fibre cords are wrapped and knotted around fingerboard. Fingerboard is glued and nailed to neck. Sound hole in centre of body. One strip of wood is bent to form sides, glued to top and bottom of body. Red and blue yarn looped and knotted around fingerboard next to head. Three pompoms attached to top centre of head by braided cord.

Culture
Huichol
Material
pine wood ?, metal, palm fibre, synthetic fibre, wax, horse hair and adhesive
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ViolinNi63 a-b

Small roughly shaped wooden violin (part a) has scroll-like end, peg-box with four pegs, thin white cord looped and tied around one end of peg-box, fingerboard extending downward from peg-box, four metal strings with one end of each string looped around a peg and the other end passing through a hole in the tail piece, looping over the string and is twisting, on two strings at tail piece are metal circles with short yarn fringe. Small dark brown cleaver-like instrument attached to string on right by thin white cord. Small square piece of wood beneath end of tail piece. Looped and knotted palm fibre cord passes through holes in end of tail piece and around knob glued to bottom back. Two s-curved sound holes cut into sound board on either side of strings between fingerboard and tail piece. Sound board, sides, back and fingerboard are glued together. Bracket (part b) bow has 38 calibre gun shell cartridge at one end, cloth-strip wrapped and tied at end of cartridge, multiple strands of horsehair emerge from cloth and extend down length to pass through hole in opposite end and are knotted.

Culture
Huichol
Material
pine wood ?, metal, horse hair, cotton fibre, synthetic, palm leaf and adhesive
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskNb3.1359

Wild man or Bukwus mask with three shades of green paint on a skeletal face, with red, white and black used to emphasize facial features. Red horsehair has been stapled to top rim and centre of dome-like forehead; on either side of forehead natural wood horn-like projections have been pegged and glued, projection on left is loose; black brows, outlined in white, graduate in size from bridge of nose to side orbital ridge; curvilinear design from brows to side rim; sunken eye areas with hollow eyes; hooked nose with hollow flaring nostrils; bulbous protrusion on each cheek; wide gaping mouth exposes buck-teeth of natural wood; black and white form line design extends from nostrils around mouth to chin; white line divides cheek and chin from jaw. On reverse, four leather strips pass through holes drilled at sides and top and artist signature. Small sliver of wood lifted from front at side on right; peg for horn-like protrusion on left visible on reverse.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, horse hair, adhesive, leather skin, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Clayoquot ShamanNb11.297

Humanoid face mask with a straight profile. Red horse's hair, with the ends wrapped in brown paper, are inserted into twenty-two holes drilled into the upper rim. Hollow oval eyes are surrounded by a plain tapering oval and a recessed oval. Light blue-green forehead has patches of white, wood visible through the paint, and an abstract red form line design on the forehead. Black brows protrude slightly. Blue-green band covers the temple, the orbital plane, the cheek, and the nose. Upward thrusting nostrils that are black on the underside and red on the outer side. Upper lip and chin. Three thin red-brown lines at the lower cheek on the left extend from the side edge to the mouth. One thick and one thin red-brown line on the lower cheek on the right extend from the side edge to the mouth. Open mouth with black next to the upper and lower teeth. On the reverse, there is a piece of wood that extends from the back of the mask with a strip of leather attached to the wood.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Tla-o-qui-aht
Material
paper, paint, cedar wood, horse hair and adhesive
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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