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A relatively flat wood knife with an open lozenge in the middle which is surrounded by a cross-guard one each side. The grip handle tapers slightly at the end where there is a disc-shaped pommel. The blade is flat with a point at the end and an inscription on one side.
A big wood club with a 7-shape, of which the longer end tapers to a conical point that has a diamond-shaped grooved pattern all around and the smaller end flares outward. At the join, there is a double-sided head with both faces having large eyes and a stylized curved nose. Around the bottom of the sides of each face, there is a pair of curved lines that have a carved pattern of pyramidal protrusions. Each face has a long angled headpiece carved with a design of curls and having a similar carved pattern of pyramidal protrusions along the sides.
Straight, axially symmetrical club. Decorations at either end with long, plain area at centre. One end has a protruding point and a protruding ring just below it. Other end has a protruding point and four thin rings that get progressively bigger from end toward centre; below these rings is a bulbous section and then a last protruding ring below this area.
Dance anklet made from braided grass-like fibres which hold together strings of nutshells(?) that knock together, producing a musical sound.
Large figure head mounted on a wooden staff. Figure appears to have a wooden core, covered with clay and cobwebs. Vibrant blue, red and white paint cover the main surface of the face. Figure has a cone-shaped head wrapped with coir rope, protruding cylinder eyes and a long red nose. Two boar tusks curl upwards at each side of his mouth. Three vertically striped birds stick out from his forehead. Sticks with wound tufts of bushy grass fibres hang down over his ears.
Raffia like penis wrap coloured with purple dye. Long strands of grass-like fibres hang down in a bundle, looped from a band woven from the same material.
Mask is circular in shape with one rounded end and one pointed end (overlapping underneath the head), and is made out of earth. It has brown-red, white, and light white-brown painted sections. It has a black painted face, white eyes with black pupils, a projecting nose, and a brown mouth with six painted teeth. At either side of the mouth is a long tooth projecting upwards. A long piece of grass(?) is attached at the top of the head.
Mask with projecting eye ridges and a projecting nose with two circular, white nostrils on either side, and a base painted white. The head is cone-shaped. Red triangles project from the top of the head at the front. It is painted green and black on one side with a white stripe. The right side is painted red with a white stripe and a border of alternating black and white triangles.
Oval-shaped ritual mask with a hole for a mouth and overhanging white eye lids. There is a white and black stripe bordering red parts of the mask. At the peak of a projection is a large, red teardrop-shaped piece. It is outlined in black and white. Attached around the rim of the mask are long, hair-like fibres.
Dark carving has large protruding circular eyes and a hooked beak nose. In profile, the head is encased in a crescent-like shape for hair ? that thins out along the lower portion below and in front of the hooked beak nose. Has a large belly with the hands clasped underneath.