Spoon

MOA: University of British Columbia

3051/21

Large wooden spoon with carved designs all the way around the handle; the top four cm of the tip and the bowl are uncarved.

Rattle

MOA: University of British Columbia

3041/6

Rattle made of six cones of tin attached to a wooden handle. The cones consist of different sizes, three wide and long, and three shorter and smaller in diameter. All are crimped at the handle, where they fit into a metal ring that joins them to the handle. Each cone widens toward the base. The l...

Rattle

MOA: University of British Columbia

3041/5

Rattle made of strands of plant material curved to form a handle, and then widening to form the bodies of two joined rattles. The same material is wrapped around the handle, and around itself at the base of the handle in order to hold the twin rattles firmly together. Intertwined between the stra...

Necklace

MOA: University of British Columbia

3041/4

Necklace of cowrie shells with a gourd pendant. A double line of cowrie shells makes up the majority of the chain, strung on plastic fishing line. At the bottom are three pairs of shells interspersed with three strands of plastic beads in black red and white. A small brown gourd hangs below this,...

Staff

MOA: University of British Columbia

3041/3

Staff made of thick, stiff strands of dried grass, wrapped with raffia in an open weave to make up the handle. From the bottom protrudes a tuft of raffia, wrapped with a band of woven white fabric and grey plastic twine. Two circular patches of raffia are attached close to the base, topped with c...

His First Day of School

MOA: University of British Columbia

3043/2

Large photographic print. A young boy stands in the centre of the photo. His smiling face and lower legs are in colour, while his torso and upper legs are surrounded by a rectangular black & white, X-ray type image overlaying the colour picture. Inside the rectangle he is wearing a neat suit coat...

Skirt

MOA: University of British Columbia

3041/2

Costume skirt made of long, plain strips of raffia hanging from a thin cotton waistband.

Headdress

MOA: University of British Columbia

3041/1

Filá headdress. Gourd headpiece, with hanging raffia cover. The half gourd is decorated with lace around its rim and across to the top centre where it wraps around a protruding lip. On the body between the strips of lace are woven circles of raffia beneath flower shaped arrangements of cowrie she...

Medicine Box

MOA: University of British Columbia

3038/2

Shaman’s medicine box made of two pieces of folded bark, one making up the outer back and sides, held together with stitched plant fibre at top and bottom. The box is a long rectangle with rounded edges, slightly wider at top. Three bands of light red woven root, moveable and of differing lengths...

Medicine Box

MOA: University of British Columbia

3038/1

Shaman’s medicine box made of two pieces of folded bark, held together with a type of stitched plant fibre at the top and bottom. The box is a long rectangle with rounded edges, slightly wider at top. Two bands of woven root, one light in colour, the other dark, are wrapped around the box at the ...