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Bamboo tube, cut out along more than a third of its length, with faint zig zags and lines carved around the socket end. The other end is a carved wooden plug with a conical tip and string looped through a hole. Fibre binds the plug and hook to the tube; it also forms a collar near one end. The hook is a wavy loop of wood with contour lines and an eye-like hole. Pigmented brown, lighter, and worn on the tube.
Bamboo tube, cut open more than a third of its length, which is undecorated but pierced by a hole near one end. Wood hook is carved like a bird profile, with incised 'eyes', 'crest', 'beak', and 'body marks'. The hook is bound to the tube with fibre. Painted brown but the pigment is worn off the bamboo on the sides and the underside.
A bamboo tube, cut open half of its length, with a loop, collar, and binding of fibre at one end. The other end is undecorated. The wood hook is carved as a curved-billed bird. The whole is pigmented black, though worn off in patches all over bamboo.
A horizontal wood element of wood stained dark brown and carved to two pointed ends with a repetitive pattern underneath. Bird-like heads dominate both ends. Legs are of bamboo cut and wrapped around the horizontal, then bound with fibre to form two a-shapes.
Short bamboo section, bound with fibres and with fibre and feather rings at top and bottom. The stop is a kneeling man with a crested bird on his head. Both have cowrie eyes, the bird also has a row of fibre tassels on its back while the man has 1 in his nose. The bird also has a tuft of feathers on its cheek.
Bamboo pole bound with bamboo grass, covered with dark pigment, and divided by three rings of woven bamboo grass and dark feathers. The wooden stop forms a crocodile merging into a crested bird. Both have cowrie eyes; the bird also has a row of fibre tassels hanging from the back and a cheek mound with feathers, shells, and a fibre loop.
Flute formed by a bamboo tube, split its whole length, held together with rings and lashings of bark and with a hole in the side near the stop. The wooden stop has a kneeling woman, with a bird on top of her head, and a human head upside down behind her legs with black cassowary feathers adorning it. Cowrie shells are inlaid into the eyes, the bird's neck, and the human foreheads. There is hair on the human heads and another fringe of cassowary feathers at the open end.
Headdress composed of a piece of tapa cloth with rounded corners and decorated with bands of zigzag in red ochre. Woven and wound string with a linear pattern in light grey Job's Tears seeds and segments of black bamboo. The exposed string is rubbed with red, black and yellow pigment (?).
A bark cloth backed beaded panel. The beads are grey and polished and woven with plant fibre string in rows. There is a cross-pattern of black electrical wire pieces. The edges are dyed red, and the top is alternately dyed red, then has grey beads and yellow dye in vertical rows.
Spoon cut from a single, narrow piece of bamboo; one end is bent and rounded to create the spoon's bowl.