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Ancestor figure made of wood with copper and shell inlay. Figure is shown seated on a platform with feet together, and hands on ankles. He wears a tall elaborate headdress with rolled side elements represented with rope-like inlaid copper. The same copper is heavily wrapped around each forearm. The chest, nipples, top of head, front of headdress, and edge of platform are inlaid with small circular copper pieces. He has a very narrow and pointed face, with lips and jaw jutting out, and eyes of inlaid cowrie shells.
Mwana pwo dance mask with long reed-like hair. The female face is carved of a single piece of wood; the facial features protrude. The eyes are almost closed, with thin slits; the surrounding eye area is emphasized. The nose is small with a thin bridge, the mouth also small and contains small carved teeth. Facial scarring is indicated under the eyes and across the cheeks. The forehead is decorated in incised motifs and line patterns. Ears a small, each with a large hole in the lobe. Attached to the wood face panel is a thick netting of grass that covers the back of the head, with a braid encircling the chin. Attached to the net by long twists of grass are cut pieces of hollow bamboo reeds, strung on to hang like hair.
Mask made of mud-covered fibre, decorated with pigment. The face is wide, with a protruding nose, a brow emphasized with a cord of fibre, and holes cut for the mouth and eyes. The face is decorated with lines of red and off-white pigment. Hide with fur attached to the mask by plant fibre, covers the top of the head and outlines the edge of the face. The interior of the mask has a support structure made of curved wooden rods tied together with fibre, supporting the mud and fibre front of the mask. Four pieces of furred hide hang down from the top rear of the mask.
Object is both a spear and an axe. Part a is the axe handle with a spear tip inserted in the top. Part b is the axe blade which fits through a horizontal slot in the handle. Handle is stained dark brown from top to bottom on one side.
Long dark-brown handled hoe with flared wooden blade handle and U-shaped metal blade. Wooden blade handle near metal blade is decorated with three carved round notches on all sides.
Axe has a long metal blade with a rounded end, an incised circle and decorative pattern of dots and criss-cross marks on the blade. Top of handle is wooden and has diagonal line patterns carved on its surface and circles carved on its edges. The bottom of the handle has a band of the same carved circles. Copper wire encircles the bottom of the handle and near the top.
Brown comb made from one piece of wood. It has ten long, straight, thick, tapered teeth that are evenly-spaced. Narrow handle with triangular areas composed of incised parallel lines at different angles. The two comb sides differ in design. Sitting in crouched position and hugging centre of handle is forward-facing human figure, arms and hands supported by knees also support elongated head from under chin. Head slopes down towards back. Head covering or coiffure patterned with same design as on comb handle. Face and hands are light brown.
Dark brown coloured wood comb made from one piece. It has thirteen long, tapered, thick teeth, with uneven spacing and carving and some that are slightly angled. The handle is rectangular and is patterned with triangles composed of incised parallel lines alternating with plain areas. The two sides of the comb differ. Projecting vertically from two top corners are two plain, geometric-shaped standing birds facing one another, silhouette-like with long beaks; beak of one broken off.
A one piece yellow-brown shaft which continues into a dark brown rounded elbow-shaped end. On the opposite side to the elbow projection is a flat rectangular metal blade inserted on a downward angle, and perpendicular to the shaft in dark brown wood. The upper blade corners are rounded, and the corners at the sharpened slightly convex end are squared. 'M' is engraved on the blade's underside.
Thin brown smooth-backed wood piece. Narrow rectangular wood platform has on top seven metal tongues (keys), once nine, evenly-spaced in a row, placed lengthwise to the wood piece, and held in place by a lateral bar wrapped in metal strips that are inserted into the wood piece through to the back. Length of knotted hide strung through two holes at same end. Large hole in the middle of the wood piece. Lateral bar inserted in the edge with two loosely-wrapped metal bands. Carved with a main geometric design consisting of four parallel horizontal bands, from top to bottom: diagonal lines, opposing diagonal lines, four double-outlined u-curves, and four upside down u forms with diagonals inside.