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ArrowAc238

Yellow brown wood shaft that has one end inserted with tang of large metal arrowhead, then tightly wrapped with fibre. Bulbous tang tapes into head which swells suddenly, tapers, then swells into two long wide barbs curving back towards shaft. Shaft's butt end is notched and whipped with fibre. Short, cut pieces of a dark brown feather and fibre-lashed vertically around shaft's circumference.

Culture
Chokwe
Material
adhesive, fibre, feather, metal and wood
Made in
Luma Kasai, Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model BoatNa1075 a-f

Wide, round-bottomed boat (a) with sharply pointed bow and stern. Frame consists of wood slats fitted and lashed together with sinew. Skin is tightly stretched over frame and laced down. Boat has oar locks, formed by two pegs projecting upwards, two on starboard side, two on port, and three wood thwarts. Boat has five long, carved wooden paddles: (b) to (f) each flare gradually from handle end to blunt paddle end. All wood of boat and oars is yellow-white in colour.

Culture
Gwich'in
Material
skin, sinew and wood
Made in
Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowAc236

Brown patinated wood shaft that has one end inserted with tang of metal arrowhead, then tightly lashed with fibre. Tang tapers to head with squared edges and two long thin barbs which are slightly curving back towards the shaft. Head has wide point. Shaft's butt end is notched and whipped with fibre. Short cut pieces of a white brown speckled feather and fibre-lashed vertically around shaft's circumference.

Culture
Chokwe
Material
wood, feather, adhesive, fibre and metal
Made in
Luma Kasai, Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowAc235

Yellow brown wood shaft that has one end inserted with tang of metal arrowhead then tightly lashed with fibre and one long section followed by shorter one further up shaft. All lashing winds around circumference, always touching, never overlapping. Tang section below head, slightly bulbous. Head composed of two long wide barbs, one on each side curving forward. Head has small point. Shaft's butt end is notched and whipped with fibre. Short cut pieces of a dark brown feather and fibre-lashed vertically around shaft's circumference.

Culture
Chokwe
Material
adhesive, fibre, feather, metal and wood
Made in
Luma Kasai, Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowAc234

Yellow brown wood shaft that has one end inserted with tang of metal arrowhead then lashed with fibre. Metal head is fan-like outward from tang with fan's corners having small square projections. From these corners, the head forms a wide point. Shaft's butt end is notched and whipped with fibre. Short cut pieces of a dark brown feather and fibre-lashed vertically around shaft's circumference, some of which are white-spotted.

Culture
Chokwe
Material
wood, adhesive, fibre, feather and metal
Made in
Luma Kasai, Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowAc233

Yellow brown wood shaft that has one end inserted with tang of large metal arrowhead then tightly wrapped with wool(?) strip. Metal head composed of two long wide barbs, one on each side curving back towards shaft. Head only slightly pointed. Shaft's butt end is notched and whipped with fibre. Short cut pieces of a dark brown feather and fibre-lashed vertically around shaft's circumference. 'x' pecked on one side of arrowhead.

Culture
Chokwe
Material
wool fibre ?, metal, wood, adhesive, fibre and feather
Made in
Luma Kasai, Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BucketNa1073

Oval-shaped wood bucket; overlapped sides stitched with root. Brown painted exterior has two carved grooves. Attached by metal pins on both sides of bucket is a piece of walrus tusk with a hole in it and a hide thong tied to a walrus tusk handle.

Culture
Inuit
Material
paint, spruce root, metal, skin, walrus tusk and wood
Made in
Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BasketAc230

Boat-shaped basket with a concave 'keel' flanked by convex base ends. Composed of stiff yellow-brown and brown warp slats folded in half at the base and flaring out to the multi-lashed wood, and fibre rim. Vertical weft pattern is alternating areas of brown and yellow-brown. Slats held in place by widely-spaced dark brown fibre weft twining with the most prominent being the two lines around the circumference and one at the base. Structure braced apart by horizontal wood crossbar.

Culture
Chokwe
Material
fibre and wood
Made in
Luma Kasai, Angola
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlowgunIb417

Blowgun of natural light brown wood. Wide metal lance-olate blade lashed to muzzle end with worn braided binding and five sets of rattan. Shaft tapers from mouthpiece to muzzle. 1.1 cm. wide hole at each end. Pith at centre is bored with a very small hole (slightly curved) for darts.

Culture
Punan
Material
wood, iron metal and rattan
Made in
Sarawak, Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlowgunIb416

Blowgun of natural dark brown wood. Thin metal lance-olate blade lashed to shaft with four sets of rattan binding, the lowest one of which is wrapped around four times while the middle two are wrapped around twice and the top one is wrapped around multiple times. Muzzle is plugged with pandanus leaves. Shaft widens slightly from muzzle to butt end, where it flares to form mouthpiece. Mouthpiece slightly concave; hole at centre (0.9 cm.) edged with red wax. Pith inside hole with small hole bored through length.

Culture
Punan
Material
wood, iron metal, rattan, pandanus leaf and wax
Made in
Sarawak, Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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