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Cylindrical-shaped headdress with basketry support (triaxil interlacing) and large, flared, upper rim; has entirely beaded surface sewn on cloth-covered support. Horizontal bands of white triangles on black. One wide row of white zig-zag. Two single rows of red beading. Rows of white and black at rim. Small opening at basket top stuffed and covered by cloth which is wrapped into stiff support for hollow, beaded cone, inverted, projecting from top, with stiff black hair wisk, hide wrapped and sewn on wood stick projecting up from cone's centre. Wisk's base, wire wrapped. Cone's flared rim has four beaded straps, two with black and white stripes, the others with white triangle pattern and red beaded edge, attaching cone with flared top rim of cylinder. Two attached, looped, beaded straps, one at each side at ear area, one in black and white, the other in red and white. One has dangling bead string. One base side has short, bead-wrapped cloth projection.
Bow made from a cylindrical section of wood, arched and tapering to ends that are wrapped in hide thong. With the exception of an area at the centre that is flanked by some thong lashing, the rest of the length is covered by tightly coiled in wire covered with a blackened coating. The bow string, lashed over the hide at the ends, is three-ply cord made of twisted hide thongs.
Light brown burlap(?) covering over a rectangular block shape bundle of blackened substance and stitched up one side with cotton(?) cord. Bundle squeezed between two sticks and all three wrapped and knotted together with fibre lashing. Sticks taper at ends with each finished in a knob and both touching while they are wrapped and knotted with cotton(?) cord held on the ends by the knobs.
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.
Cylindrical object which tapers then flares widely to large light brown wrapped rim with a convex base. Light brown with dark brown designs. Upper third at flaring mouth in uniform diagonals of light brown alternating with dark brown formed by two/three twill interlacing. Main body, of lower two-thirds, in widely-spaced weft twining: fine dark brown fibre weft elements, four horizontal lines, over stiff light brown warps. Base is interlacing with irregular order. Woven to surface over warps above and below weft-twined body are long horizontal elements around circumference.
Loosely knotted net-like plant fibre shirt with two very long sleeves. Overall horizontal striped pattern in shades of brown, red-brown, and beige.
Mask with trunk-like projection extending forwards from top of the head. Mask built on a wood frame, lined with woven plant fibre. Heavily decorated with cowries and areas of beadwork on forehead and around side. Face has cowrie shell eyes outlined with beads, and a wooden nose and mouth. Bottom edged with plant fibre, which has been split into finer pieces below the face.
Arrow with metal head that has slightly rounded sides and a pointed end with a short shaft that is bound to the long metal shaft with stem(?). Feathers have been bound to the shaft near the end with stem(?) whipping and the notched tip of the shaft also has stem(?) whipping wound around it.
Skull cap of woven rope-like fibre at the top centre with short lengths of stick sewn around the rim in overlapping rows. Covered in red ochre powder.
Woven root basket (part a) and divination contents (parts b-r). The coiled basket has watch-spring and splint weave at base. The contents of the basket are: b) short piece of horn pierced at tip and base; c) desiccated hoof; d) cowrie shell; e) part of seed pod; f) cocoon covered with sticks; g) wooden thread spool; h) disc of copper; i) carved, cylindrical wood object; j) carved wooden effigy; k) fruit pit; l) wood with wax coating; m) fragment of black plastic or bakelite; n) stone; o) ball of wax; p) smaller ball of wax; q) ball of wax with hollow centre; r) fragment tar-paper with two nails.