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ArmbandIe406

A woven band of rattan with two fibre flaps at the front top, and two below. Small cowrie shells edge the front and form arches around a wide stripe of shells in the middle. The woven spaces in between are coloured brown and red-brown. The back is undecorated. The ring-shaped armband is somewhat flattened.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pigment, fibre, rattan and cowrie shell
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceIe405

A wide flat bamboo strip, brown on the exterior while light brown on the cut side, is kept in a u-shape by a brown fibre string running from near one end to the other end. Curving inward from each tip, there is a white and brown boar's tusk bound to the wood with light brown fibre.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pigment, fibre, boar tusk and bamboo grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear ThrowerIe374

Bamboo tube, cut open for half of its length, with a carved knob and an incised pattern at its butt end. Wood hook is carved as a reptile with distinctive teeth that are carved out as a negative space. Fibres bind the hook to the tube and the handle has a fibre collar and a loop. The whole has pigmented black but has worn away in patches on the sides and on the underside of the bamboo.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, bamboo grass, pigment and fibre
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Body MaskIe396

Part of a tumbuan body mask/costume. Conical helmet like mask with a very long nose, agape mouth, protruding lower lip, and a woven fringe dividing front from back. Made of rattan woven over a wood frame, it is coated with a thin layer of clay. Has painted tear shapes around the eyes. Painted zigzags on the fringe, and feathers on the lip and nose tip.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pigment, cassowary feather, feather, wood, clay and rattan
Made in
East Sepik, Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskIe395

Mask with a concave face, protruding eyes, a looped nose, concave ears, and a dish-like oval object on the forehead. A rail runs below the face, and another bound with cassowary feathers and brown feathers are also spaced evenly along the rail. Cassowary feathers decorate the nose and sennit fibre tassels hang from the ears. The mask is made of rattan woven over a frame of wood that is thinly coated with clay. The facial features are emphasized with black and white pigment.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
sennit fibre, clay, cassowary feather, feather, bamboo grass, rattan, chalk stone ?, lime mineral ? and pigment
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShieldIe394

Unevenly rectangular slab of wood incised on one side with a central crocodile figure bordered with geometric patterns of triangles, ovals and diagonal lines on the top and bottom pattern. Fibre ties run through four holes in the wood on the back. The surface is covered in charcoal pigment.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
oil, charcoal, pigment, fibre and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubIe371 a-c

Undecorated, unpainted, cylindrical brown wood shaft (a) with a knob on one end and an eight-pronged, roughly rectangular stone head (b) on the other end. In a groove on the shaft beyond the head, there is a triangular metal blade (c). A small ring of fibre encircles the shaft at the head. The club head is painted with radiating grey and orange lines, mostly worn away on the underside.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stone, pigment, fibre, metal and wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Body MaskIe393

Part of a tumbuan body mask/costume. Fibre mask, conical in shape with a sennit fringe around the bottom edge and outlining the central face. The entire body is painted with a faded white, black and red zigzag-like pattern. The face has a red triangular pattern outlined in black on a white ground. The eyes are black woven circles with holes in the middle; the red nose is woven and protrudes out with a long bundle of sennit hanging down from the tip. The brow consists of black bird skin while the painted forehead is lined with cassowary feathers and toped with a piece of cuscus skin. The inside is hollow.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
rattan, bamboo grass, cuscus skin, oil, pigment, cassowary feather, skin and sennit fibre
Made in
East Sepik, Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShieldId200

Oval shield that has a rectangular boss (10 x 6 x 1 cm.) with the longest dimension parallel to the width of the shield and in the approximate centre of the vertical surface. Boss enclosed by geometric design of bands all approximately 2 cm. in width, separated by thick black lines. Series of six bands alternately natural and yellow ochre coloured, joined to form squares, surround the boss which is outlined by an oval band. Points of squares aligned parallel to the longest and widest axes of the shield, respectively. Final points of sixth square touch edges at either side. Top and bottom form points of new series of squares with this repetitive pattern incomplete. Undecorated dorsal surface is hollowed at the centre to form a vertically placed handle.

Culture
Australian
Material
ochre pigment, fig root and charcoal pigment
Made in
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Body MaskIe392

Tumbuan body mask/costume. A tall conical fibre, woven mask with two faces. At the top is a bird-like face crowned with cuscus fur and cassowary feathers; it has a long, protruding beak with a large feathered tassel at the end. At the centre of the body is a black human head made of clay with inlaid shell eyes and decoration; the top has human hair and feathers. Above are open eyeholes for the wearer, on the sides are armholes. The mask is of woven rattan over a bamboo frame, painted with red and white stripes and other detailing.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
cowrie shell, cuscus skin, cassowary feather, clay, bamboo grass, rattan, feather, pigment and hair
Made in
East Sepik, Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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