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HeaddressIe438

Headdress composed of a piece of tapa cloth with rounded corners and decorated with bands of zigzag in red ochre. Woven and wound string with a linear pattern in light grey Job's Tears seeds and segments of black bamboo. The exposed string is rubbed with red, black and yellow pigment (?).

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bamboo grass, paper mulberry bark, fibre, seed and ochre pigment
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoinclothIe437

A bark cloth backed beaded panel. The beads are grey and polished and woven with plant fibre string in rows. There is a cross-pattern of black electrical wire pieces. The edges are dyed red, and the top is alternately dyed red, then has grey beads and yellow dye in vertical rows.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plane wood, dye, paper mulberry bark, root and bamboo grass
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadbandIe436

A pandanus leaf string headband with grey polished plane stem beads. The beads alternate with the string. Light horizontal rows with eight beads are on each vertical strip. The centre has two vertical rows of long cylindrical black beads with two vertical rows of grey beads. Each end has red dye on the string, and the braided ties.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
plane wood, paint and pandanus leaf
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeadbandIe435

A pandanus leaf string headband with grey beads alternating with the string. Eight horizontal rows with eight beads are on each vertical strip. The string is dyed yellow at either end, in between the beads.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pandanus leaf, plane wood and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagIe434

Large fibre 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 loosely woven in a fishnet style. There are horizontal bands that are slightly darker; natural ground.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pandanus leaf fibre
Made in
Samo, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagIe433

Small, string, u-shaped bag (bilum) with long handle loosely tied in 'fish-net' style. White/brown overall, discoloured in some areas and some red patches of dye.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
pandanus leaf fibre and dye
Made in
Samo, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Axe HeadIe432

A rounded cylindrical axehead with a large hole through the centre, and dyed brown with a yellow-brown appearance that is white with scratches all over.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stone and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Axe HeadIe431

Solid heavy greenish-brown stone ball with a red vein on one side. Some red dye on rough area.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
stone and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandIe430

A small flat armband with a bark base and woven on the outside with thin brown and yellow bamboo strips with a checkered and zigzag design around the band. The inner side has vertical stripes of thin brown bamboo. One side has red dye from the middle to the edge between the bamboo elements.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bamboo grass and bark
Made in
Mogulu, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandIe429

A wide flat armband with a bark base and tied with white fibre on one side. Woven with thin brown and yellow thin strips of bamboo with diamond-shaped, checkered, and zigzag designs around the band. The inner part has only vertical strips of thin brown bamboo.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
bamboo grass, fibre and bark
Made in
Mogulu, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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