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ArrowC785

A plain cane shaft wrapped at the base and near the notched end with cane fibre. The long point is wrapped with cane fibre around the tip and is multi-barbed with tiny barbs on all faces which are covered with red ochre and have a rectangular hole near the base of the point.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
wood, grass, fibre and ochre pigment ?
Made in
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC502

Hollow, cylindrical, bamboo shaft with designs filled in with black pigment and some areas painted red. Has a long, narrow, lance-olate leaf-shaped blunt hardwood point that is flat along one side while rounded at angles along a ridge at the other side. Some stem ? is coiled around the upper portion of the shaft. The lower portion of the shaft has a design that consists of a horizontal band with a zig zag leaf pattern and vertical lines of triangles in between curvi-linear lines.

Culture
Eastern Melanesian
Material
wood, bamboo grass, stem ?, pigment ? and paint
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC507

Plain tapered, dark brown wood pointed shaft with a barbed point with traces of red pigment. The barbed point has six pairs of barbs in a geometric split u-shape with a rectangle at the base that his grooved in a grid pattern.

Culture
Eastern Melanesian
Material
wood and pigment
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC724

Wooden club made from a branch; slight knob on the bottom with a straight shaft leading to a curved end with spur. The underside of the curve has a rectangular section roughly carved and coloured blue.

Culture
Fijian
Material
wood and pigment ?
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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KnifeC145

Knife with elongated obsidian blade that has a central ridge and curved sides that come to a point at the tip. The handle is oval in cross-section and tapers to a tip. There is a diamond-shaped design incised into both sides of the reddish-brown clay handle, and the design has been coloured with white pigment.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
obsidian stone, clay, lime pigment and wood
Made in
Admiralty Islands, Manus, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShieldC798

Wood shield, oval in shape with a slightly carved, bilaterally symmetrical stylized design painted brown, black and white. There is a triangular shaped raised section near the middle which has a two woven straps forming an x-shape across it. The edges have a woven border. The back has a carved out handle and is painted with two similar designs.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
wood, fibre and pigment
Made in
New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA8368

Unpainted carved wooden mask with painted white jagged teeth, burnt lines for main portion of eyebrows, burnt crosses at the cheek, and black paint at sides of nose and for the extended eyebrow.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
charcoal pigment, paint and wood
Made in
Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC933

The tapa cloth is natural in colour with designs in greyish-dark green. There are two repeating designs: a human-like figure with a long body and a shape resembling a sideways 'H'. The figures are repeated in rows, on one side of the cloth.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
banyon tree bark, paint and indigo pigment
Made in
Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa ClothC934

The cloth is rectangular with many thin orange-brown lines on a natural coloured background. The cloth is divided into five bordered panels with dark brown lines. In each panel there are two long natural coloured triangles, one at each end. There is also a large, brown, randomly placed dot in each panel; one panel has two dots. The cloth is painted on one side.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark, pigment and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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RattleA7959

Rattle in the form of a human hand. Small finger has piece of string tied around it. Ochre stained red.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
alder wood and ochre pigment ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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