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A piece of pearl shell, crescent-shaped, with one hole bored at each point.
An arrow shaft, 91 cm. long, of pitpit (sword grass). The foreshaft is a 4 cm. (between bindings) length of black palm wood, secured to the shaft with a sleeve of woven rattan 1.5 cm. wide. The lanceolate point is a flat piece of bamboo 1.5 cm. wide projecting 18 cm. beyond the binding. The point is bound to the foreshaft by a band of bark cord 11 cm. wide coated with yellow clay.
A hornbill beak, predominantly light yellow with a little dark brown and red. There are five heavy ridges on the top surface where it joins the bird's head.
A comb of yellow wood, roughly rectangular in shape. Nine teeth are running parallel to the longitudinal axis. The long teeth are 14 cm. long and have been shaped to be roughly round in cross-section. At the opposite end, there has been cut an indentation shaped like a flattened v, with each side measuring 6 cm. The remaining solid wood surface has been incised with a pattern of diamonds and transverse lines. The smallest diamonds have been painted red.
An awl of cassowary leg bone, tapering to a point, and grooved near the joint end. The joint is dark brown while the point is light yellow. The surface, except for the joint, is extremely smooth, polished through use.
Flat bag, rectangular, bottom corners rounded. Made of bark fibre kitted in a ribbed pattern, the ribs forming an overall pattern of large rectangles. Bag heavily saturated with pig fat, encrusted with clay. Netting handle threaded through corners at open end. Handle is broken.
A flat bag of twill-weave light brown grass, woven in one piece, rectangular in shape, and open at one narrow end. The edge of the opening is finished by turning ends of grass back and weaving in. There is a double row within 1.5 cm. of the open edge. The handle of braided root fibre (?), 51 cm. long and tied at mid-length, is affixed to the opposite corners of the bag by threading through the weave.
A dog collar of heavy rattan, tied into a knot. From it, there are suspended four rattan loops, of a doubled length approximately 6 cm. The ends of each loop are threaded through a hole in a seed pod. The four seed pods are irregular in shape, approximately 5 cm. long and 3 cm. thick and hollow with a rough veined surface. A section of each has been cut out.
A bamboo section of a pipe with two segments. The top segment has been perforated to allow passage of smoke to the mouthpiece, which is simply an upper cut end of bamboo section, where 15 cm. from the bottom of the pipe, there is a hole 1.5 cm. in diameter, blackened by smoke, apparently for insertion of tobacco.
Axe (t-shaped, mount Hagen type). Flat head (part b) of black stone projects 20 cm. from the handle, curving towards the working edge, tapering towards handle. Blade balanced by projection of wood extending 16 cm. from the handle, 3 cm. wide, flattened oval in cross-section, with narrow raised ridge around circumference 2 cm. from the end. Projection partially coated with grey clay. Handle (part a) of wood is a flattened oval in cross-section, tapered to the end. Components bound together with binding of heavy rattan. Head is loose.