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Basket with natural twill weave inside and outer basket (part a)made of purple, blue, yellow, and green fillets of cane woven in diagonal and vertical patterns. A twill weave is used and by a simple elaboration of the diagonal combination of the coloured warp and woof gives rise to a geometric design. These two baskets are placed together and are caught between strips of split bamboo. These pieces are lashed to the basket with fine fillets of purple cane. A second basket has been made in the same manner and fits as a lid (part b).
A shadow puppet of transparent cut out leather representing the figure of a male human. Has one large black circular eye, a black moustache, sideburns, and beard. Has a big nose, and a bulging stomach. Wearing a red hat. There is a red, and green sash (?) tied around his neck. Wearing a red, and green lower garment. One hand is holding a pointed object. Has a split bamboo stick up the centre tied in three places. One moveable arm is jointed, and tied with thread at the shoulder, and elbow, the hand to which has a second bamboo stick attached. Dyed black, red, and green.
A wood horizontal element stained dark brown and carved on the ends and on the underside in the form of a double-headed reptile with bird-like heads lying on the back of the necks. Ridges on the underside are interrupted near one set of legs. Legs are of light brown wood cut and wrapped around the horizontal, then bound with fibre to form two a-shapes.
A wide flat bamboo strip, brown on the exterior while light brown on the cut side, is kept in a u-shape by a brown fibre string running from near one end to the other end. Curving inward from each tip, there is a white and brown boar's tusk bound to the wood with light brown fibre.
Bamboo tube, cut open for half of its length, with a carved knob and an incised pattern at its butt end. Wood hook is carved as a reptile with distinctive teeth that are carved out as a negative space. Fibres bind the hook to the tube and the handle has a fibre collar and a loop. The whole has pigmented black but has worn away in patches on the sides and on the underside of the bamboo.
Mask with a concave face, protruding eyes, a looped nose, concave ears, and a dish-like oval object on the forehead. A rail runs below the face, and another bound with cassowary feathers and brown feathers are also spaced evenly along the rail. Cassowary feathers decorate the nose and sennit fibre tassels hang from the ears. The mask is made of rattan woven over a frame of wood that is thinly coated with clay. The facial features are emphasized with black and white pigment.
Part of a tumbuan body mask/costume. Fibre mask, conical in shape with a sennit fringe around the bottom edge and outlining the central face. The entire body is painted with a faded white, black and red zigzag-like pattern. The face has a red triangular pattern outlined in black on a white ground. The eyes are black woven circles with holes in the middle; the red nose is woven and protrudes out with a long bundle of sennit hanging down from the tip. The brow consists of black bird skin while the painted forehead is lined with cassowary feathers and toped with a piece of cuscus skin. The inside is hollow.
Tumbuan body mask/costume. A tall conical fibre, woven mask with two faces. At the top is a bird-like face crowned with cuscus fur and cassowary feathers; it has a long, protruding beak with a large feathered tassel at the end. At the centre of the body is a black human head made of clay with inlaid shell eyes and decoration; the top has human hair and feathers. Above are open eyeholes for the wearer, on the sides are armholes. The mask is of woven rattan over a bamboo frame, painted with red and white stripes and other detailing.
Flute consisting of a large piece of loose skinned bamboo, bound with two sets of crisscrossing fibre and three cassowary feather rings at the top, middle and bottom. The stop of the flute is a carved kneeling man facing outwards with a crested bird standing behind him with its claws ? resting on the man’s head. The bird has a large extending crest on its head, long groups of feathers hanging from the side of its head and carved stylized detailing on its body. Both the bird and the man have cowrie eyes; the bird also has four tassels down the back. The figures and the fibre ties on the bamboo are covered in a black pigment.
A pair (parts a-b) of gold isosceles triangles with scalloped edges. Each is glued on a bamboo stick which is bound by a piece of wire which projects, 5.4 cm. (a) or 4.3 cm. (b), beyond the base of the triangle, perpendicular to it. Raised from the surface of each triangle by means of three paper cylinders, there is a smaller foil triangle printed with a multi-coloured design of a butterfly and other shapes. Wired to this is a tuft of red fibres.