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Tabua1650/5

Twined rope with a whale tooth attached where the ends meet. Tooth is held to rope with some grass through a hole in the tooth and a metal loop around one end of the rope.

Culture
Fijian
Material
fibre, sperm whale tooth, metal and adhesive
Made in
Nadroga-Navosa, Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure1436/1

A small figure standing with its hands together as if in prayer. The figure is carved with a face and a headdress, a necklace, and wings.

Culture
South India
Material
whale tooth
Made in
Goa, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Stretching Tool898/3

Long light-brown coloured wooden dowel that fits tightly into corresponding holes in white-coloured bone pieces at each end. At one end, the bone piece is large, round in shape, and flares up slightly at its edges. The other bone piece is smaller, with two narrow pieces that flare inward towards the dowel.

Culture
Inuit
Material
wood and whale tooth
Made in
Kap Dan, Greenland
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure974/1

Carved tupilaq (tupilak). Standing human-like creature with a pointed head, 2 black eyes, mouth slightly open, upper and lower teeth, leaning on a face similar to its own topped by an animal head.

Culture
Inuit
Material
whale tooth
Made in
Kap Dan, Greenland
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureNa1676

Ivory coloured carving of a human torso, starting from the shoulders upward. Has a well defined face with deep-set eyes, a sloped nose, and a closed mouth that is slightly frowning. C-shaped carved ears are on either side of the face and are at the same level as the eyes. The figure has short hair above the ears defined by hatching on the head and has the appearance of being male. The underside of the object has a small brown hollow opening at the centre.

Culture
Inuit
Material
sperm whale tooth
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sculpture1339/17 a-r

Off-white whalebone base (part a) with 15 carved grey soapstone animals (parts b-p) that stand on top, with yellow-white coloured pegs that fit into holes on the base. Part b is a bear, part c is a narwhale, part d is a dog or wolf, part e is a sealion, part f is a caribou, part g is a rabbit, part h is a seal, part i is a seal, part j is a bird, part k is a whale, part l is a fish, part m is a bird, part n is a wolf, part o is a bird, and part p is a muskox. Parts q and r are carved bone antlers from the caribou (part f).

Culture
Inuit
Material
whale bone, soapstone stone and caribou bone
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace1060/12

Necklace composed of teeth strung alternatively with pale blue coloured glass beads, except for a short section composed of two large pale blue coloured globular Russian trade beads, two large oval pale pink coloured beads and two facetted tubular dark blue coloured beads.

Culture
Inuit ?
Material
walrus tooth, beluga whale tooth, fibre and glass
Made in
Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureNa1209

Stylized, seated gull carved from weathered whale bone. Dense bone appears only at top of head and along part of one side. The rest is porous, darker bone. Bird's head is raised up with open beak and circular indentations for eyes. Series of parallel channels indicate wings. Clawed feet extend slightly out at front.

Culture
Inuit
Material
whale bone
Made in
Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada and Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureNa1305

Porous whale bone head on a round base. Features include the following: short, parted hair, oval eyes, triangular nose and a crescent-shaped mouth.

Culture
Inuit
Material
whale bone
Made in
Kuujjuaraapik, Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SculptureNa1118

Stylized human figure which follows the form of a vertebral spine with a sawn heart-shaped face. The face has a notch at top centre, line across forehead, holes (part way through) for oval eyes, small circles for nostrils and a crescent at mouth. Sawn, rounded shoulders; deep channel indicating arms which sweep down at sides; body expands out into partially eroded, squared off centrum. Phalange (of spine) extends out from sawn area below figure at back. Back side of figure has channels along arms.

Culture
Inuit
Material
whale bone
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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