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MaskIe479

Carved wood mask consisting of a head with an elongated brow; a long nose, mouth and chin. The top of the head is decorated with cassowary feathers and a small tuft of human hair. The face is elaborately detailed with dark blue, light blue and brown stylized designs on a white ground. There is a long, cylindrical shaped piece of wood that stretches from the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the mask; on the end is a small carved bird. The forehead and the side of the face are inlaid with rows of small shells; the eyes and sections of the forehead are detailed with inlaid cowrie shells. The nose has boar tusk on either side. The lower sides and bottom are lined with small bundles of sennit fibre. The bottom tip and the sides have bundles of black feathers.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
wood, shell, cassowary feather, sennit fibre, human hair, boar tusk, paint, cowrie shell and feather
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword GuardEd5.3153

Circular disk shaped sword guard. Cut-out details with carving in the centre; nakago ana adjusted by chiseling; seppa dai signed; open kodzuka and kogai. Front: eggplant at bottom and upper right, also at lower left; leaves at upper left. Scattered touches of gold lines inlaid. Back: rear view of the same pattern.

Culture
Japanese
Material
iron metal
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword GuardEd5.3152

Four lobed form with a hammered background. Nakago ana adjusted with chiseling and metal insert; open kodzuka and kogai. Front: man with copper hands and feet, gold belt, sits at right holding a copper fishing pole; his head is turned over his shoulder to a tree growing up the right side, branches spread over the top . Back: one tree branch incised at the bottom.

Culture
Japanese
Material
copper metal, gold metal and iron metal
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword GuardEd5.3151

Oval-shaped metal sword guard with triangular hole at centre, three-lobed hole to one side, and ovoid hole to the other side. Low relief design of landscape with monkeys in mountain caves at bottom on face, and one monkey in a mountain cave with only head and arm showing on reverse. Copper and gold inlaid elements ? in design. Signed on seppa dai; open kodzuka and kogai.

Culture
Japanese
Material
iron metal and copper metal
Made in
Nagato, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword GuardEd5.3149

Circular, metal sword guard with triangular hole at centre, ovoid hole to one side, and three-lobed hole to other side. Low relief openwork design depicting a man holding a pike, with copper face inlaid and robe patterned with gold overlaid in zigzags, waves, pinetrees, mountain forms overlaid with gold lines, and a pagoda which is similarly overlaid. The reverse displays back views of all of the motifs seen on the front, and characters are incised on the back of the seppa dai. Nakago ana adjusted with metal inserts. Open kodzuka and kogai. Characters incised on seppa dai.

Culture
Japanese
Material
copper metal, gold metal and iron metal
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword GuardEd5.3148

Oval metal sword guard. Guard is smooth and has a patina; polished shakudo seppa dai; open kodzuka and kogai. Front: man in sunken relief sitting right centre under a tree. He has face of inlaid copper, hat, sleeve, and knee of overlaid gold. He is reaching toward head of a writhing fish-dragon gazing up at him. The fish dragon's body is coiled and reappears at the top of the guard. Back: incised cloud forms with touches of gold overlay.

Culture
Japanese
Material
iron metal, copper metal and gold metal
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword GuardEd5.3147

Four-lobed form with irregularly hammered background. Has an overall patina; nakago ana has chiseling and copper insert for adjustment to the blade; open kodzuka, no kogai. Front: at bottom in high relief a leopard looks upward to a bamboo in low relief growing up the right side and across the top; leaves overlaid with gold. Back: at bottom centre, several broad curved gouges and a series of dots suggest leopard's claw and pad marks; two gold and copper spots inlaid.

Culture
Japanese
Material
copper metal, gold metal and iron metal
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword GuardEd5.3146

Oval-shaped metal sword guard with triangular hole at centre and ovoid hole to one side. Low relief depiction of a male figure with a hat and sword in profile on one face. The figure's face is copper inlay, the beard is incised, and the hat is gold inlay. Incised tree with one branch on reverse. Made of shicuichi (bronze and silver alloy), open kodzuka, no kogai.

Culture
Japanese
Material
silver metal, gold metal and bronze metal
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword GuardEd5.3145

Rectangular metal sword guard with low relief design of prunus trunk that grows from lower to upper right on face with spreading branches and has copper highlights inlaid. The reverse has a design of one prunus branch. Nakago ana, four chiselled adjustments; open kodzuka and kogai.

Culture
Japanese
Material
iron metal and copper metal
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sword GuardEd5.3144

Oval, metal sword guard with four-lobed edge, triangular hole at centre, and ovoid hole to side of centre. Surface slightly raised above rim on both sides, overall brown patina, lightly hammered background. Low relief design of a farmer with overlaid gold clothing standing on a road and holding a rope that is attached to a bronze inlaid water buffalo with overlaid gold bales on its back. The buffalo stands in shallowly incised swirls of water with gold and copper water plants. At top an incised line of mountain peaks with three inlaid copper snow drifts. Back: at bottom left an incised swirl of water, scattered with copper blossoms. Open kodzuka, no kogai.

Culture
Japanese
Material
copper metal, gold metal and iron metal
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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