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A long wood mask (part a) painted dark brown with black curvi-linear lines. The vertical oval eyes have protruding cylindrical pupils. There is a ridge all the way down the middle of the face, extending to the long rounded curved nose that touches the bottom of the mask. The nose has a tusk curving upward at either side and is decorated with shells. There is an angular protrusion at the bottom of the mask. There are seeds and cowrie shells decorating the outer contours of the mask. The top of the mask has dark brown curly hair. There are some fragments in a small box (part b).
A bamboo pipe consisting of two hollow cylindrical pieces (parts a-b). The longer piece (part a) is wider in diameter, and has a design consisting of pattern of natural-coloured diamond shapes surrounded by dark brown patterns with geometric borders, and a hole one one side at one end into which the smaller piece (part b) inserts. The smaller piece (part b) has a design consisting of vertical zig zagged tooth-like lines.
A paddle-shaped handle created from the natural extensions of the eight long teeth, which fan outward radially. Fibre is woven around the middle in a black striped design.
A plain shaft, without notches, has coiled fibre at the end and at the base near the pointed end. The long dark wood point has an elaborately carved tip consisting of a small pair of barbs, four notches, and an elongated barbed tip.
A plain shaft, without notches, has coiled fibre at the end and at the base near the pointed end. The long dark wood point is uncarved and does not have barbs.
A very long plain heavy light brown bamboo bow with a split cane string, which has one loosened end.
A plain arrow shaft. There is fibre wrapped around the base of the shaft, near the pointed end. The point is made up of six stacked cones having the smallest in the middle with a large band carved with diagonal lines.
A plain arrow shaft. There is fibre wrapped around the base of the shaft, near the pointed end. The point is made up of five stacked cones having the smallest in the middle with a large band carved with horizontal zig zag lines.
A round orange-red gourd container (part a) that has a design consisting of a wide horizontal band with black swirls, and dark spirals. The stopper (part b) is rolled bark with a woven grass design around the sides of brown outlines of diamond shapes on a natural background, and a tooth finial at the top.
A circular clay face with short dark brown feathers on top and a bone point below that is convex on the front side while concave on the back side. The cowrie shell eyes are painted red and are outlined with a black line extending upward toward its respective temple, which in turn, is outlined with white and red. There is a long black line running down along the middle of the face to the end of the nose. The top of the forehead is decorated with small cowrie shells. The lips are pinched to pout out and the mouth area is white.