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Curved piece of bone incised and carved with the figure of a sea creature, its head forming the top of the piece and the body most of the length. The lower end has the head and body of a human-like form. The creature has rounded bulging eyes and a large open mouth, six horizontal ridges across the top of its head, and four long scale-like features around its neck. The upper portion of the body has an incised grid-like pattern while the lower portion has a crescent-rib-shaped-like pattern. Horizontal ridges go along across the back. The human-like form has oval eyes with thick brows above, a flat triangular nose, and a thin closed mouth while the arms rest at either side.
Knife whose blade has been cut down from a larger blade or other utensil. It is hafted by being wedged into a slit in a wooden handle and bound with a leather strip. The butt end is carved with the figure of a bird above a human with ribs showing.
Wooden barbed fish hook. Roughly v-shaped, with bone barb projecting downward from the tip of one arm toward the junction of the two. The other arm is in the shape of a bird, with a hole bored through its back. The two separate arms are bound together at one end with split root and cotton cord.
Fourteen pointed teeth; deeply incised design on one side shows a hawk with the hind quarters of a frog below; on the other a human face with prominent ears, a wolf or bear cub below. Inlaid on both sides with small pieces of abalone.
Frontlet figure? Thin rectangular carving with a concave rear surface, convex front surface. Main area of the front is a human-bird style face on a long neck. Mouth is open with upper teeth of abalone exposed. Nose is shaped as a sharp beak curving down and attaching to lower lip. A panel above the forehead is carved with a humanoid creature with arms and legs projecting from either side of its face. The back has had its side edges smoothed down to make it flatter.
Thin square-shaped frontlet, concave in back, convex on front surface. Front carved in high relief with animal head with protruding tongue; eyes inlaid with abalone. Red and black paint highlight eyebrows, nostrils, teeth, tongue lips and chin.
Human male, seated. Large head; one hand in front of chest, other at his side. Face clearly delineated with strong features and deep lines at either side of mouth. Figure wears a hat with two rings; a neck pendant; and carries two batons. Figure is hollow.
Painted wood figure of a male wearing an apron with eight pendants, the inner six of which are red-brown and green with a black outlined white circle at the bottom and the outer two of which are plain black, and fibe white and red u forms above. On the figure's chest and abdomen, there is a carving of a head that has white outlined circular black eyes, a black nose, black cheeks and forehead, and a downturned mouth that is green along the lower lip. The figure's right arm is resting the side while the other arm is bent with the hand near the mouth. The figure has circular black eyes surrounded by a tapering red oval outlined by black and surrounded by a white area with black brows above, black cheeks and nose, and a thin mouth. Six vertical projections spring from the head, the two at the sides being longer than the others. Mounted on a black painted chamfered base and in turn on another thin base.
Elongated, curved length of bone; bottom tapers to a point; top is carved in the shape of a stylized human head wearing a truncated conical hat. Rectangular teeth exposed.
Central band - "meander" pattern in purple bordered by red. Handle is natural and purple in a 1:1 ratio. Plain twined work; braided border; overcast handle; false embroidery.