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A rattle made of four tubular seed pods (parts b-e), each about 31 cm. Long with a 2 cm. diameter, dark brown and loosely bound together with coarse plant fibre cord ( part a). The tubes have seeds inside. The end of one tube (part b) is plugged with plant fibre like the cord, the end of the next tube (part c) is plugged with white plant pulp while the end of another tube (part d) is plugged with soft brown paper (?), and the end of the last tube (part e) is plugged with paper(?) at one end and plant fibre or bark at the other.
A rattle made of four tubular seed pods, each about 13 cm. long with a 2 cm. diameter, tightly bound together with woven rattan in a loosely wrapped pattern. The tubes have seeds inside. The ends of the tubes are plugged with fibrous material.
Roof top ornament. Low-fired ceramic ornament that is partially painted in white and black, hollow underneath. A female figure straddles the bowl section with her hands on her thighs. A fish-shaped handle runs over top.
A smooth, light green and dark green stone that has an oblong rectangular shape with both sides slightly curving convexly, although one is a bit flatter than the other and tapering at an angle, creating an edge at one end which is more flared than the other more rounded end.
A large, smooth, green-black stone that has an oblong rectangular shape with both sides slightly curving convexly and tapering at an angle, creating an edge at one end which is more flared than the other more pointed smaller end.
A piece of pearl shell that is crescent shaped and that has 8 cm. between the points where there is a hole bored. The convex side is pearly-yellow while the concave side is pearly-white. Irregularly coated and encrusted with red ochre. Attached to the holes, there is a band knitted of local fibre, 60 cm. long, and 5 cm. wide. To one end, there is attached a cord 5 cm. long. The other attachment has been broken and is affixed to the shell with nylon string. The band is coated with red ochre. To each end, there are affixed two cowrie shells. At the midpoint, there are three transverse ribs. Near these, there is affixed a clump of fur.
A bailer shell, white on the convex surface, with an irregular brown coating on the concave surface. Triangular shape with rounded corners and one corner notched. Five holes are bored near the two upper corners. Through two of these, there has been strung a double length of cheesecloth 61 cm. long. The cheesecloth is coloured with yellow clay.
A stone, almost perfectly spherical with one side brown while the other has a black end.
An arrow shaft, 88.5 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). The shaft is light brown with black coating. Inserted into the tip of the shaft, held with a woven rattan sleeve 1 cm. wide, is a long point of black palm wood 27 cm. long, which appears to have had a thin point which was broken off. The point is incised with longitudinal wavy lines filled with short parallel lines and rubbed with red ochre and grey clay.
A very flat brown wooden dish with an elongated oval shape that has one end pointed, and a smooth surface. The rounded end is thicker, and rougher, and is more bent so that it is higher. The convex side is incised with two parallel rows of dots 11 cm. from the pointed end of the bowl. Between the dots and the point, there is a simple incised pattern of parallel and perpendicular lines. A hole is bored through the near point, through which, there is a loop of bark.