• Results (96)
  • 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.

Figure1448/21

Grey-black human figure in standing position. Arms are bent and resting on a protruding branch(?).

Culture
West African
Material
metal and paint
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Figure1448/20

Grey-black figure kneeling on flat platform with hands touching the shoulders and body bent forwards. Skirt is attached to the platform. Small bowl is attached to the corner of the platform.

Culture
West African
Material
metal and paint
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Figure1448/19

Metal figure of woman wearing a loincloth (pagne) on a platform, bent over a mortar (sowa or starh). Figure is grinding the contents with a pestle in one hand and is holding the edge of the mortar with the other. Head of figure is tilted slightly to the side.

Culture
West African
Material
metal and paint
Made in
West Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa Cloth1448/17

Long narrow decorated tapa (masi) with designs in black and brown. The design is two blocks (pairs) wide and seven long, each pair containing similar flower-like central designs with wide geometric borders around the whole set of blocks. The flowers are of two types, one with oval petals and the other with diamond-shaped petals. One side has a thin striped fringe, the other has a border of lengthwise lines. The ends are serrated. The cloth is made of two pieces attached together; one is thinner than the other.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa Cloth1448/16

Long rectangular tapa cloth with geometric designs in brown and black on natural coloured ground. In the centre are squares with two floral motifs in natural on a divided brown and black ground. Around the squares are many bands with triangular and diamond motifs in natural and black. The bottom edge has a thin, black and white fringe. The ends are cut in a serrated pattern.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Tapa Cloth1448/15

Long, rectangular white tapa cloth (masi), undecorated with fringed borders.

Culture
Fijian
Material
mulberry bark
Made in
Fiji
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Dance Skirt1448/14

Dance skirt made from a layer of leaves and plant segments(?) at the waistband, under which is a slightly longer layer of dyed purple bark, and finally a longer layer of grass.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
leaf ?, bark, plant, dye and grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Carrying Bag1448/13

Carrying bag (bilum) woven from light brown fibre with a geometric line and box pattern on the face in dark brown, red, and blue. The top and bottom edges of the bag are curved.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Paddle1448/11

Wooden steering canoe. Single piece of wood. Carved bird forn on top of rounded shaft flattening out to form paddle end. Lance-olate shaped paddle tapers to thin pointed tip. Carving on either side of paddle where shafe melds into paddle head. Signed on paddle head.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood
Made in
Papua New Guinea ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Model CanoeIg412

Model canoe with a painted black hull, unpainted gunwales, decorative finials at the ends of the upturned tips of the canoe, carved decorative elements with toothed edges on the inside of each end, and shell inlay four-point stars and curvilinear designs.

Culture
Solomon Islands
Material
wood, fibre, adhesive, paint and shell
Made in
Solomon Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record