Large lacquer tea bowl with intricate designs around perimeter. The object was donated with a maker’s card which describes its makers and place of origin. The designs around the perimeter were taken from reliefs in Bagan Temple, Burma. The central design is bordered on top and bottom by small patterns in orange-red and green against a black background. These borders depict small beings - such as deer, fish and elephants - within intricate frames. The central design features Buddha in various standing and sitting poses. There is also a large, reclining elephant depicted. The elephant wears a hat and a cloth over its back. In each pose, the Buddha’s hands and feet are in very specific positions. He wears a variety of clothing from one figure to the next but his elaborate head dress remains the same. The various positions include: sitting on his knees, pouring tea, receiving tea, sitting cross-legged, sitting on knees holding a bat, standing with palms pressed together and standing with one arm upraised. On the bottom of the bowl, orange-red lines form a circular border containing text written in green. This circle is open in a small section. There is a standing bird with a long tail within the border with text. The interior of the bowl is painted solid black.

Oblong basket with two thin handles. The basket is primarily the natural cane or bamboo and raffia colours, but there are two bands of three lines each of dyed dark blue raffia, around the perimeter of the object. The structure of the basket has vertical and horizontal supports made from cane or bamboo, wrapped with raffia. On either of the longest sides of the basket, there is a braided handle. The handles are tied together over the middle of the basket with a piece of raffia. There is a number written in pen on the bottom of the basket.

Small oblong basket with a rounded bottom and rim and a braided handle attached to the centre of the coiled rim. The ribs of the basket appear to be made of split bamboo wrapped with raffia. The raffia is primarily in its natural colour, but there are two dark blue dyed raffia rows woven around the central area. There is a maker/sale tag attached to the handle.

Rectangular model village spirit house (haus tamburan) on 14 dark brown carved stilts has a basketry and clay mask with Cowrie shell eyes hanging at each end and a fringe of reddish grass along the bottom. Woven grass rope roof and walls with two small square openings in each are supported by an inner bamboo frame and floor boards. Wood house post finials carved in the shape of birds sit atop the roof peaks at each end; (b) stands upright with engraved markings on chest and light brown open wings while the darker (c) bends forward and looks down, scalloped wings with dark brown markings pointing upwards.

A basket (part a) with a fitted lid (part b) made of dark brown bamboo? It is narrow at the top and then swells at the shoulders becoming tapered again at the bottom. There is a lip at the base. Two loops at the base of the neck have an attached cord. The cord is made of grass rings with a centre piece of twilled fibre.

Wooden model canoe (parts a-c) with one outrigger. The canoe has an oval-like shape with pointed ends, a rounded bottom and interior. The surface is painted red and black with white on the bow and stern which have small sections of shallow engraving. Across the top of the canoe are six pieces of bamboo that extend out to the pontoon and also support twelve thinner stripes of bamboo that run in opposite direction. The pontoon or float (part b) is cylindrical in shape is black with pointed, tapered ends. Inside of the canoe is a small, carved wooden paddle (part c).

One part of a three piece artistic representation of the attributes of the "shark caller". Curved fragments of coconut shell, which are strung onto two strips of rattan bound together into a loop handle, make a rattling sound when shaken.

Small collapsible spoon made of two pieces that join at the centre, and rotate around a central point in order to collapse in half. (The spoon fits into one of the bamboo tubes attached to 529/12 a.)

Small whisk formed from a piece of bamboo that has been split into many tines that go outward from the stem. (The whisk fits into one of the bamboo tubes attached to 529/12 a.)

Basket or bag with square-shaped base and tassels at the corners, woven from grass dyed pink, turquoise, yellow and white. The design created is diagonal bands of the pink and turquoise beneath the name VANUATU woven in at the top. A braided border around the top rim extends into three long braids on each side that are all knotted together and the grass left loose at the ends.