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Figure carved from a single piece of wood, decorated with intricate painted patterns on all sides. In lines and dots, colours are black, yellow ochre, red-brown, and white. Mid-way down the arm on either side is a band of small orange and light-green feathers wrapped with plant fibre. The figure’s arms and legs end in flat surfaces, with no hands or feet. The head and neck are long and narrow, face flat with a small nose and angular chin. Round eyes are small, and mouth is shallowly carved.
Spear thrower. Tool is long, thin and leaf shaped. Rounded resin grip at one end and a squared tip at the other. Plant fibre and resin are wrapped around the tip to hold a small upwardly curved piece of wood, upon which a spear woutld attach. Tool is flat on this side, and slightly convex on the other. Lacquer applied to surface has a fine bubbled texture.
Wooden boomerang. Object has a long dingle with a slightly outward curving tip. Lifting arm is slightly wider, and elbow has a soft curve.
Bark painting on a roughly rectangular piece of slightly warped reddish-brown bark. The top is entirely covered with the painted image in yellow, black and white on a dark red ground. The image is divided into six panels. The upper centre panel shows two black possums on either side of the trunk of a tree. The four corner panels each show a pair of vertical yellow and black possums. The bottom centre panel shows two women facing a tree trunk. Above the upper panels is a horizontal panel of wavy lines. The upper and lower ends each finish with a short black band. The reverse is plain bark.
Dark brown wood spear that has fourteen barbs along one edge. The fourteenth barb from the point is reversed. Was cut in at least three places. Only three sections of the spear remain.
Two poles (parts a-b) joined with cloth and pitch and with seeds set in pitch (part c). Plain except for the red seeds set in the black pitch which joins the sticks.
Plain, long, brown wood piece with a narrow linear leaf-shaped point with a long tip and a slim shaft that bulges around the near the lower portion. The other end is thicker (where it is bulging) and is pointed as well.
Long thin hardwood point set into cane shaft. A plain shaft of ten cane joints with the last one at the base of the point wrapped with stem ? to hold the point. The long dark point is plain. The end of the shaft is wrapped with fibre in a wide round bundle.
Plain, long, brown wood piece with a flat linear leaf-shaped point with a long tip and a slim shaft that bulges around the near the lower portion. The other end is thicker (where it is bulging) and is pointed as well.
Bone barbs set onto three prongs. The end of the shaft is plain and wrapped with white string and has a coiled wire loop with a nail bent through it. Near to this, the shaft is painted red and then becomes dark brown-black where it is wrapped with fibre at the base which is also painted red. The base of each of the three prongs is plain and then has a section painted red. Each bone barb is wrapped with fibre under which, there is a tiny barb.