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A wide flat armband with a bark base and tied with white fibre on one side. Woven with thin brown and yellow thin strips of bamboo with diamond-shaped, checkered, and zigzag designs around the band. The inner part has only vertical strips of thin brown bamboo.
A light brown-coloured elongated oval wood piece carved as human head (part a). Hair protrudes from the top and extends as a point over the forehead. Facial features are in relief. One horizontal step is cut for the eyebrows. The eyelids surround slit-like eyes filled slightly with silver foil(?). The long nose is pierced with knotted raffia. The cheekbones are peaked, and deeply recessed below, are formed by elevated sections resembling a nose form which continues around to the back of the head. The lips are formed by adding two balsa(?) pieces to the mouth. Faint traces of iron oxide, and black, and white paint. Raffia binding passes through pierced holes at the top back of the head. Dark brown wrapped bamboo ring (part b) with fine wicker work is added out from the edge with the ring width tapering in at one point. (One knotted fragment (part c) is separate)
Carved wood stool covered in dark brown stain. The base and the seat are rectangular with two legs in between. Incised in the edges of the rectangles is a band of repeating squares. Projecting out to the side is a human head with its head up and its neck stretched long. The face has incised lips and nose with cut cowrie shells inlaid for eyes.
An elongated face mask with carved extensions from the top and the bottom. The forehead is raised. The face recedes sharply. The eyes are set upon the facial surface and are oblong with dark centres, looking straight ahead. The nose flares. The mouth is oblong with a surrounding raised area. The chin is raised from the facial surface.
A carved wooden crocodile head. Two large eyes with incised outer rims and the nose on top of the head. Ten teeth are carved along the figure's right jaw while the left jaw has two lines incised to mark the jaw, but has no teeth. The lower jaw extends to two horn-like protuberances with a deep ridge under the head. Eye screw behind the head. 'New Guinea' is marked on the back in black crayon.
Wooden stool. Circular base and top set on four convex legs.
A dagger with a long, tapered, brown and black bone (human? or cassowary?) blade with a modelled red clay handle in the form of a human head. The face is painted black and white and is inlaid with a cowrie shell for each eye. It has a double headband made of cowrie shells and black curly human hair adhered to the 'head'.
An oblong-shaped mask in blackened wood with cut-out eyes and mouth. Two small bumps on the forehead. Large eyebrows. Top of the head, the upper lip, and the jaw areas have been plastered with red clay, and gum, painted over in black, inlaid with cowrie shells, and human hair, held in place with glue.
A simple handle created from the natural extensions of the two outer, two central, and two outer long teeth that fan outward radially. The handle has turquoise beads fastened with hair around the splints. Twenty-five long teeth fan outward radially. The teeth are woven tightly together at a half-way point and are decorated with pink, turquoise, and red glass beads.
Grass skirt with a fringe made of numerous thin strips of red sennit and grass knotted onto waistband. There is a small knotted tie on one of the ends.