• Results (420)
  • Search

Item Search

The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.

View Tutorial

Log In to see more items.

Figure1491/3

Dark and light brown coloured human figure with round head, smooth dark-brown coloured hair, round protruding ears, oval eyes, wide nose, and slightly opened mouth. Figure has a dark-brown coloured neck and is wearing a tunic-like garment carved into the wood that is decorated with engraved lines and a central horizontally-positioned diamond-shape. Arms are at the figures' side, legs are thick, and feet are oval with carved grooves indicating toes.

Culture
Central African
Material
wood and stain ?
Made in
Cameroon
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Mask1373/16

A dark brown headpiece with a long curved nose. Atop the headpiece there protrudes forward a long flat curved piece with a fin-like ridge. Along the curved sides of the headpiece and the sides of the protruding long flat curved piece there is a red-brown and grey-white triangular geometric pattern. Holes have been made along the bottom of the headpiece.

Culture
West African
Material
wood, paint and stain
Made in
Burkina Faso
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Figure636/9

Human portrait sculpture from torso to top of head. The head is oval-shaped with diagonally carved lines indicating hair, the forehead is broad, eyes are open and widely space, nose is wide with exaggerated nostrils, lips are large and chin is pointed. Neck is slender and extends to the shoulders and torso. Torso has three frontal surfaces that taper to a seven-sided base.

Culture
Southern African
Material
wood and stain ?
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Comb636/10

Dark reddish-brown comb that has a round edge at one end and eight evenly-spaced teeth at the other. Smaller vertically positioned diamond-shaped design carved inside a larger and wider diamond-shaped design on surface of comb. On reverse side, inner diamond-shape is positioned horizontally.

Culture
Southern African
Material
wood and stain ?
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Axe636/2 a-b

Object is both a spear and an axe. Part a is the axe handle with a spear tip inserted in the top. Part b is the axe blade which fits through a horizontal slot in the handle. Handle is stained dark brown from top to bottom on one side.

Culture
Chokwe ?
Material
wood, metal and stain ?
Made in
Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Headdress790/2

Antelope headdress. Four legged animal-like figure on oval-shaped base with upright tail attached by metal pins to an elongated head with two linear grooves around the front sides of the pointed end. Two small orange tassels are attached to each side of the back of the head. The top part of the head is dome-shaped with a thin frontal extension and decorated with a small orange-coloured tassel attached to the top of the front end. At the back of the head, three long pieces extend length-wise, curve slightly upwards and join together at a point. Each is decorated with spiral designs.

Culture
Bamana
Material
wood, metal, stain ? and fibre
Made in
Mali ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Gelede Mask1373/70

Dark brown coloured oval-shaped mask with two protruding panels on the top. The lower half is a human face mask with protruding eyebrows, cut-out eyeballs, small wide nose with cut-out nostrils, closed mouth and small chin protrusion. The top half is somewhat cone-shaped, decorated with cross-hatching. Protruding from either side of the head on thick posts are carved panels with overall cross-hatching detail and a central lizard-like design carved into the wood.

Culture
Yoruba
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Nigeria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Mask1373/28 a-b

The main part of the mask (part a) has slits carved out for the oval eyes. The ears are pointy triangles, and the nose is also pointed downward. The eyebrows and moustache are carved with a rectangular pattern. Protruding out at the sides of the mask are two trapezoids, one at each end, which have a feather-like pattern carved horizontally in the middle. The oval mouth with teeth protrudes out at a sharp angle. The bottom of the mask has two "legs". The top of the mask has two feet from which part b has broken off. Part b is a squatting female figure with pouty lips and a coiffure. The breasts and the belly are pointed outward, and the hands are resting on the knees.

Culture
Senufo
Material
wood and stain ?
Made in
Cote d'Ivoire
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Mask2655/16

Dark brown mask with wide protruding forhead, deep set, cut-out triangular eyes, and a humped nose with a blunt tip. The carved mouth is slightly open with oval-shaped carvings of eyes(?) on the top portion of the lip between the mouth and nose, and long ear-like carvings on either side of the upper lip extending to the eyes.

Culture
Mexican
Material
wood and stain
Made in
Oaxaca, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Model Kayak981/1

Dark brown kayak made of skin stretched over a wooden frame. The skin is sewn together with a seam running down the centre of the boat from the upturned, pointed end to the pointed tip at the front. The circular cockpit is ringed with a strip of wood and raised in the front.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood, seal skin, fibre and stain
Made in
Nunavut, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record