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BagC1229 a

Bag with a trapezoidal shape and two flat woven handles. The bag is woven with dark brown bark and off-white palm leaf to form a v-shape composed of dotted lines, and geometric patterns. Several fringes along top edge.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bark and palm leaf
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1229 b

Bag woven from alternating grey-brown, red-brown and natural grass and bark in a geometric design. Two bands of woven grass(?) are attached at the top edges as handles, and there is a braided grass string threaded through loops near the top edge of the bag with short lengths of red-brown bark at either side of the bag.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bark, grass and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1230

Woven fibre bag (bilum) with a wide rounded, flared bottom that tapers to a narrow top. On either side of the narrow opening is a flat handle woven. The covering the surface is three leaf-like flaps outlined and decorated with bands of cowrie shells. The surface has wide bands of cowrie shells with alternating stripes of red and black on a natural ground.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plant fibre, cowrie shell and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ToyC1231 a-b

Two pieces (parts a-b): the disc and the foot. The discs are dished. The first piece (part a) has a swirl-like design. The second piece (part b) has a design consisting of four equally spaced grooved oval shapes surrounded by a double circular outline.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood and coconut nutshell
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DaggerC1232

Geometric and stylized designs are carved into the bone, which tapers to a sharp point. There is a carved oval face with small eyes and a mouth. There is a hole at the top of each side. A ridge goes down along the middle with seventeen triangular pointed protrosions.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
cassowary bone ?
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceC1233

Rigid circular necklace made from teeth bound to fibre with twisted fibre string and decorated with a row of cowrie shells. Loop and tie closure.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
fibre, cowrie shell and dog tooth
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1234 a

Large nettle bag (bilum) in a trapezoidal-like shape, round and wide at the bottom then tapering to the top. On either side of the slit opening is the end of a woven handle. The body of the bag is detailed with two bands of a maroon and green triangular pattern followed by three maroon and green stripes; all on a natural ground.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
nettle fibre and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1234 b

Large nettle bag (bilum) in a trapezoidal-like shape, round and wide at the bottom then tapering to the top. On either side of the slit opening is the end of a woven handle. The body of the bag is detailed with two zigzag bands in maroon and green along the top; a band of maroon and green stripes followed by another zigzag band; all on a natural ground.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
nettle fibre and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1234 c

Large nettle bag (bilum) in a trapezoidal-like shape, round and wide at the bottom then tapering to the top. On either side of the slit opening is the end of a woven handle. The body of the bag is detailed with maroon and green stripes that border the wide, central band with a triangular pattern, all on a natural ground.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
nettle fibre and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagC1234 d

Large nettle bag (bilum) in a rounded rectangular shape with the sides angled inward to the top. On either side of the slit opening is the end of a woven handle. The body of the bag is detailed with two bands of a maroon and green stripes intermixed with a checkered pattern followed a single, solid maroon stripe; all on a natural ground.

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