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Metal-tipped spear with wooden shaft. The spear tip is attached to the wooden shaft with cord that has been covered in dark grey resin(?). This cord has also been wound around the butt end of the spear shaft, and approximately one sixth of the way down the length of the shaft from the head.
Metal-tipped spear with wooden shaft. The spear tip is attached to the wooden shaft with cord that has been covered in dark grey resin(?). Part a is the main part of the spear, and part b is the butt end of the shaft, which has broken off.
Metal-tipped spear with wooden shaft. The spear tip is attached to the wooden shaft with cord that has been covered in dark grey resin(?).
Long green coloured fluted representation of a vase. Vase has three distinct sections that are distinguished by a small raised ridge and a gold painted band. Top of vase flares out.
Boat-shaped basket made from slender sticks bound and nailed to a bamboo frame. Stiff, rounded handle runs from one end to the other.
Light brown, circular open work basket with a rounded bottom and a thick, overcast rim; basket may have had two handles at one time.
Apron composed of woven fibre with two neck straps that have brown tufts of fur at the ends, and a fringe composed of strips of woven fibre with brown fur and longer brown and black hair attached at the ends as well as chains of braided rings made of bamboo strips(?) and brown grass(?). There are tufts of reddish-brown fur at the top of each chain, and the apron is decorated with red, blue and white pigment.
Conical shape, woven container with small flat, oval shaped bottom, a bamboo rim and a chevron pattern on the sides. There is a circular fibre tie on the side.
Long strips of bamboo are cut from a bamboo tube and raised by small blocks of wood. An i-shaped slit is cut into the bamboo. There is a decorative tail piece. Red tassels decorate one end of the instrument.
Flute consisting of a large piece of bamboo, bound with two sets of fibre ties and two cassowary feather rings at the top, middle and bottom. The stop of the flute is a carved kneeling man facing outwards with a large, crooked beak bird standing behind him with its chest pushed out and its wings behind its back standing on a jagged board. The bird and human figure has inlaid cowrie shell eyes and are detailed with white and brown pigment. The figures, the bamboo and the fibre ties on the bamboo are covered in a black stain.