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Belt814/10

Girl's belt formed of six wool strands tied together at one end with pieces of fibre twisted in. There are sections of blue and yellow.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wool fibre, sisal fibre ?, palm leaf and dye
Made in
Olubus, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress812/19

Light-cream coloured palm leaf(?) headdress. There are seven sections of leaves that are split at the ends and that are folded back and attached to the band.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
palm leaf ?
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat566/5

The mat is rectangular and natural coloured with a fringe. There are woven purple double lines on the diagonal across the mat. A fibre fringe of alternating green and orange extends around all four edges.

Culture
Samoan
Material
wool fibre, leaf ? and dye
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mat566/3

The mat is rectangular with designs woven in a natural colour, blue and pink. There are three bands of colour, two blue bands separated by one pink. The design is a diamond woven with two colours contrasting, either natural/blue or natural/pink. There are twelve diamonds, three rows of four, separated vertically by a zigzagging line.

Culture
Samoan
Material
leaf ? and dye
Made in
Samoa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Food Cover1192/2

Conical dome with black, red, yellow and green coloured leaves(?) laid over unpainted leaves(?). Black and red segments along the bottom edge are in elongated triangular shapes, and appear to radiate from the centre tip.

Culture
Southeast Asia
Material
leaf ?, plant, fibre and paint ?
Made in
Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pot1295/1

Pot of a decorated gourd with woven neck of grass and plastic(?). A claw protrudes from top of plug, held in place by tightly wound grass. Decorations are in a band around gourd's centre and consist of spirals that meet to form triangular spaces that are filled with either fine incised lines or three petaled flowers.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
gourd fruit, palm leaf ?, pig tusk ? and plastic ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag1176/36

Bag of woven light brown bark(?) strips, with a geometric design in light yellow leaf(?), emphasized with dark grey and orange-brown paint. The bag has two straps on one side.

Culture
Western Indonesian ?
Material
bark ?, leaf ? and paint
Made in
Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword1060/54

Long wooden sword with handle and tip that is bound with leaf material. Long edge of sword is lined with twenty-nine shark teeth attached to each side. Each tooth is perforated at the wider end and is secured to the long wooden piece with black and light-brown twisted fibre.

Culture
I-Kiribati
Material
wood, fibre, shark tooth and leaf
Made in
Nonouti, Gilbert Group, Kiribati ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Basket407/2

A large circular woven basket with a curved rim. Design consists of small rectangular sections around the edges, two pink and two purple with like colours opposite each other. The central design has small alternating squares of purple and pink to form four triangular formations at the centre.

Culture
Moroccan
Material
leaf and dye ?
Made in
Morocco
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Body MaskIe505

Tumbuan body mask/costume. Mask is composed of a conical basketry top with woven facial features near the top, which is finished with a lip that juts upwards and outwards to form a circle as viewed from the top. The top is painted in alternating white and orange vertical bands. The bottom of the mask is finished with a long fringe attached to a ring of bent branch.

Culture
Asmat
Material
wood, bark fibre, ochre pigment ?, lime mineral ? and palm leaf
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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