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Standing stone bird figure. The bird has a heart-shaped chest, two triangular legs, knob-like tail feathers, pointed head with bulging eyes, and two oval-shaped wings to each side with carved crosshatching. The stone is rough, and mottled in appearance with flecks of reddish-browns.
Band of braided plant fibre with cowrie shells. The largest shells are stitched to the middle section, with smaller shells near the ends.
Large bilum with an open weave. Bottom is rounded. Decorated with a pattern of diagonal bands of yellow, green, red, and purple. Top of bag is open with a flat woven green and yellow handle.
Shell pendant attached in two places to a wide woven band which tapers at ends. Band has a cowrie shell at each end close to where it is attached with knots through holes in the kina shell. Shell has a deep cresent shape with rounded ends. Entire object is covered with a red pigment, although back of shell shows some original colouring. Paper sticker on front.
Large, wood, rectangular shaped shield with rounded corners. The surface is painted with the union jack flag. The underside is concaved and has a fibre handle consisting of many pieces of braided rope wrapped together with a piece of cotton fabric. Along one of the sides is an electrical cord, cut and tied into a knot at either end. Adhered to one of the corners is a flattened red and yellow tin can that reads: ‘Globe, Drippings, Product of Australia’. Covering almost half of the back is a nailed, large piece of metal. There are large cracks through the shield that have been repaired with adhesive, metal ties that protrude from the surface.
A long-faced mask with an elongated nose that joins to the chin. Carved with geometric designs over the entire face consisting of curved notched lines and swirls. Brown paint above the cowrie shell eyes. There is a long cylindrical-like protrusion extending upward just above the forehead. Bark ? hanging strip.
The mask is all black with cowrie shells for eyes with a notched outline. Two grooves create a curvi-linear ridge across the eyebrows. The ears are small, and the head tapers upward to a flat top with a ridge down the middle of the forehead. The elongated nose has the head of a bird at the end which joins at the end of the face. Geometric designs of dots and curved lines are carved around the bottom portion of the mask.
Woven natural rattan, with geometric design in black, covering slate stone blade. Handle tapered to a point, has been positioned to one side of center, closer to slate blade and has been cut and glued near head.
Trade axe with a diamond and zig-zag pattern created from woven black and natural coloured rattan covering the extended butt end that flares at the very back. The head flares outwards and has a curved edge. The handle is tapered to a rounded point and unfinished.
A rounded clay pot with a wide flared base. Has molded face in relief on each side. The red body is painted with white and black decoration. Each face has black horizontal slit eyes with a red outline that has radiating grooves for eyelashes, a prominent pointed nose, and smiling mouth, and a red dot on each cheek. In between each face, there is an alternating pattern of red and black vertically curved lines with a semi-conical protrusion in the middle.