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BagC1229 c

Bag woven from off-white and grey-brown palm leaf and red-brown bark to form geometric designs. Several fringes along top edge with two woven loop handles.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bark and palm leaf
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1238

Bag with a rectangular shape woven with alternating colours of bark as well as off-white and light brown grass to form a geometric design. Top edge finished with several fringes. Two flat woven handle straps attached at top.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass and bark
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtC1225 d

Skirt composed of dyed red, orange, and brown knotted grass fringes that hang from a cord waist band.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtC1225 b

Skirt made of grass fringe in different lengths and dyed red, orange, and brown. The knotted fringes hang from a waistband.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtC1225 a

Skirt made of knotted strands of grass hanging from a twined grass waistband. The grass is dyed red, orange, and brown in vertical stripes.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DaggerIe424

Geometric and stylized designs are carved into the bone which tapers to a sharp point. There is a carved face with big eyes, a wide nose, and a mouth. There is a hole at the top of each side.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
cassowary bone ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtC1225 c

Skirt composed of grass strands dyed in vertical bands of orange, red and dark brown and knotted to the waistband. Half of the skirt is shorter than the remaining half and has a curved edge.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtC1226

Skirt made of strands of grass that hang from two grass ropes at the waist and have been twisted and knotted with the long ends left loose. The skirt is dyed with two shades of brown arranged in alternating rows.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceC1228

Three strands each composed of two sections of dark brown seeds and a middle section of two long cylindrical sections of bone with four or five large seeds and a bone ring separating them.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bird bone and seed
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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WhiskC1227

A simple woven rattan handle to secure long strips of grass.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
rattan and grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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