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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.
Flat, oval shaped wood with a stylized facial design carved in shallow relief. The negative space is covered in a white pigment. The back is undecorated and has a slight, rectangular shaped, tapered protrusion.
Carved wooden bullroarer with a flat, oval shaped body with tapered, pointed ends. The surface is incised with a repeating geometric pattern of vertical and horizontal lines intermixed with x-shapes. The cuts are detailed with brown pigment while the negative space has white pigment. The top has a hole drilled through and the back is slightly concaved.
A wig with the hair secured by being knotted into a woven grass cap. Hair is brown with short curls overall.
A plain round orange-red gourd container (part a). The cylindrical coiled stopper (part b) has a woven cover of clock-wise pointing arrows on an open work weave. The rim of the stopper is a yellow, and brown checkered pattern.
A wide flat circularly coiled bark belt that has elaborate linear geometric designs filled with white clay. Fibre cords are looped through holes at one end and near the middle.