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FigureA1636

Ground stone sculpture in the form of a human head with Incised facial features. The eyes are oval-shaped and capped with straight lines above to represent eyebrows. There is a thin nose and a straight line for a mouth surrounded with full lips. On both sides of the head there is an ear. Shape of the head is oblong with a pointed chin and an uneven, pitted surface.

Culture
Coast Salish: K'omoks ?
Material
stone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaulA701

Tool made from a large, oval piece of coarse stone and a thick wooden handle. The dark stone has a deep groove around the middle and another groove that runs perpendicular to the first one, around one end of the stone. One end of the thick wooden handle is rounded, the other end flares. The flared end is carved to fit lengthwise over the stone with several grooves. The leather lashings are wound around the stone and the wooden handle; the grooves in the stone and wood holding the lashings securely in place.

Culture
Coast Salish: Songhees ?
Material
wood, leather skin and stone
Made in
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ToolA774

Spatulate tool. Long flat bone piece, slightly triangular in shape with one wider end and rounded tips. Made from sea mammal bone. The bone has a spongy appearance.

Culture
Coast Salish: Musqueam
Material
bone and plaster ?
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Paint DishA16098

Round, granular stone mortar, or dish, with circular depression worked into top. Remains of red-orange pigment in and around the depression.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
stone and pigment
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlA11693 c

Bowl with nine petal-like lobes around the shallow, depressed area; rim of bowl is higher than the top of the lobes.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
stone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bark BeaterA8433

Bark beater made from bone and shaped like a club. The head is rectangular with a series of fine parallel grooves running lengthwise. Handle has slightly flaring butt end.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
whale bone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Elbow AdzeA6077

Elbow adze greenstone (nephrite?) blade rectangular in shape with a bi-facially bevelled and curved bit. Lashed with hide strips to a carved wooden hafting platform with an acutely-angled branch providing a handle.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
wood, skin and stone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaulA1104

A rounded piece of coarse dark stone, which is flat on both ends and has a deep circumferal groove around the middle for holding hafting lashings. Lower edge is flattened to sit firmly on hafting. Head is lashed with cedar root to carved wood hafting platform. Extending from this is a curving branch which acts as a handle.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
wood, root and stone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Straight PickA2.447

Straight pick with a tapered point at each end made from mottled brown walrus tusk (possibly fossilized). Pick is bound to a straight handle of brown walrus baculum with rawhide lashings.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
rawhide skin, walrus bone and walrus tusk
Made in
Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PointA2.434

Thin, dark grey, leaf-shaped point.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
slate stone
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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