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Flute stop. Carved with an obal face with a handle extending from the bottom. Inlaid cowrie shell eyes are surrounded by a black tapering oval. Open black mouth with red lips and white teeth in a grin. Face is decorated with curvi-linear triangular lines painted red, black, and white. Cylindrical handle tapering at both ends. Handle is black with horizontal red and white bands at the top.
Basketry woven piece that has a central oval around which, there are five solid bands curving from one side across the top to the other side. The bands, from the middle to the top, are white, red, yellow, white, and orange. In between the bands, there is a zig zag pattern.
Open-work basketry woven mask of plant fibre that tapers from the sides to a long vertical point, creating the nose with a circular eye on either side surrounded by a vertical oval. From the top of the head, there are three flat levels of radiating zig zag bands. Covered with clay and painted white, black, red and yellow-orange.
A circular clay face with long dark brown feathers on top and a bone point below that is concave on the front side while convex 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.
Circular band woven in a herringbone-like pattern with alternating brown and grey stems (?).
Black, thickly woven circular band heavily encrusted with dirt (?).
Black band thickly woven in a herringbone-like pattern.
Brown-grey circular band woven in a herringbone-like pattern.
Brown-grey wreath-shaped object made of thick, woven stems (?).
Necklace with a circular white shell suspended from the bottom of a long, vertical segment made of bamboo sticks of the same size tied one on top of the other horizontally. Brown woven fibre cord is affixed along the top of the rectangular bamboo segment.