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SpearC292

The tip is coiled with red plant fibre, below which, there are the following: four sets of four small barbs; three sets of four increasingly longer barbs; and six sets of four small barbs. The point is decorated with a light and dark brown grass sleeve with a horizontal zig zag pattern and a carved band that consists of two figures (each of which has eyes, a downward curving feature above and in between the eyes, a double upward curve below, and a large upward curve underneath). Red and yellow plant fibre coiling are at either ends of the grass sleeve. The dark brown wood shaft is plain and tapers at the end.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
wood, grass, fibre and bone
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC290

The tip is coiled with yellow-brown plant fibre, below which, there are the following: three sets of four small barbs; three sets of four increasingly longer barbs; and seven sets of four small barbs. The point is decorated with a red and yellow grass coiling, a carved band that is emphasized with white and that consists of two figures (each of which has triangular eyes along with three upward pointing triangles below), and a carved ball. The red-brown wood shaft is plain.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
wood, bone, grass and fibre
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC303

The tip is coiled with red and yellow plant fibre, below which, there are the following: five sets of four small barbs; three sets of four increasingly longer barbs; and five sets of four small barbs. The point is decorated with a red and yellow grass sleeve with a horizontal zig zag pattern, a carved band that is emphasized with white and that consists of two figures (each of which has eyes with a wide, diamond-shaped nose), and a fibre ball. The dark brown wood shaft is plain.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
wood, fibre, stem ? and bone
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC1519

The tip is coiled with yellow-brown plant fibre, below which, there are the following: six sets of four small barbs; three sets of four increasingly longer barbs; and ten sets of four small barbs. The point is decorated with a red and yellow grass sleeve with a horizontal zig zag pattern, a carved band that consists of two figures (each of which has eyes, a bulbous nose, a wide smiling mouth, and hands resting below the belly), and a fibre tuft. The dark brown wood shaft is plain.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
bone, fibre, grass and wood
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearIe461 a-b

Very long, brown wood spear in two pieces (parts a-b). The first piece (part a) has a paddle-like protrusion with an open lattice work design near the end that is carved with a bisymmetrical geometric swirl pattern in four sets while ten horizontal rings are carved around above to the bone tip. The second piece (part b) is wrapped around with ribbed cord, attached to which, there are seeds and white feathers.

Culture
West Papuan
Material
wood, bone, fibre, feather and seed
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC512

Plain, brown wood shaft with a bone point that has many small barbs along each side. The point is set into the shaft with a pitch material. Along the upper portion of the shaft, there is a pyramidal shape followed by a plain section with a horizontal, upraised band below and a wider, horizontal, upraised band underneath.

Culture
Eastern Melanesian
Material
wood, plant fibre, resin and bone
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearIe459

Long, light brown wood shaft that has three horizontal bands around the base. The head is bound onto the head and consists of a barbed bone point that has four small bilateral barbs. The red-brown wood head underneath the bone point is carved with barbs around the upper portion of its sides along with inverted split u's. A woven fibre sleeve is at the base of the head on the shaft.

Culture
West Papuan
Material
wood, bone ? and fibre
Made in
Papua, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC1575

Bone barbs set onto three prongs. The end of the shaft is plain and wrapped with white string and has a coiled wire loop with a nail bent through it. Near to this, the shaft is painted red and then becomes dark brown-black where it is wrapped with fibre at the base which is also painted red. The base of each of the three prongs is plain and then has a section painted red. Each bone barb is wrapped with fibre under which, there is a tiny barb.

Culture
Australian
Material
bone, plant fibre, wood and paint
Made in
Australia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tattooing EquipmentC1758 a-c

A three piece set of tattooing equipment. The first piece (part a) is a rounded bowl end part of a coconut nutshell that is holding some black substance. The second piece (part b) is a flat light brown wood stick with a hollow cylindrical bone piece at the other end that is cut away at diagonally with four teeth at the longer end. The third piece (part c) is a long flat brown wood stick.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
coconut nutshell, wood and bone
Made in
Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HookC1125

Rounded wooden shaft decorated with abalone shell inlay along the inner concave curve. Bone barb secured to shaft with a twisted fibre string.

Culture
Maori
Material
abalone shell, wood, fibre and bone
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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