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Bentwood box; kerfs cut both on exterior and interior, fourth corner nailed; three sides, except back, decorated each with one panel of horizontal, finely chiselled grooves. Lid (part b) with adzed surface is slightly wedge shaped, with ridge at back projecting upwards. Cedar stitching on front and right side over split. Base pegged (?). Box lashed and knotted on all four sides with two-ply cedar bark rope, loose and fallen down close to base. Underside of box has a different type of rope used.
Rectangular mat. The mat is plaited with twilled and checkerboard weave designs. There are bands of geometric diamonds in dark brown and green-brown woven on the horizontal and vertical. The diamond design creates a wide border and forms three sections within the mat. The undecorated areas are woven with the checkerboard weave. There is a wide bark strand edge.
Near spherical pot with flat base, flattened top, and a raised central ridge around the circumference. Opening with lip extends from ridge at one side; a very worn shoelace is tied through a small hole in the lip. The lower half of the pot is red, the ridge is brown, and the upper half is tan with black and brown rectilinear design; designs are in mirror image, projected around the central band, running parallel to and extending from the lip.
Cylindrical shaped fibre and wood Tago ? mask with a conical shaped head and a long face that curves lower then the straight across back. The face is painted white with brown and black detailing. The eyes are open and outlined in a brown fish-like shape. The wooden nose projects out while the mouth is made of two boar tusks adhered facing the opposite direction over top of black painted detailing. The sides have rectangular sections painted with diagonal lines; a circular fibre ring hangs on either side with two kinds of shells and feathers. On top of head is a rounded cap of dark fibre with a lighter fibre bushy top knot. Feathered arrow-like stick sits in the middle of the head.
Tall wooden drum. Smooth cylindrical wood; hollow; tapering from top to base. Light brown in colour; mottled brown hide stretched and tied with fibres to top, secured to pegs extending from side. A raised wide band near the base has six vertical bands of incised triangles; edges of band coloured black. Base flares from narrowest point, edges coloured black. Yellow chalk mark beneath base.
Rectangular basket (a) with rounded corners and a flat lid (b); lid is fitted flush to slightly flaring sides. Slat foundation of cedar joined together in split-stitched cedar root coiling. Sides decorated with imbrication resembling small rectangles which are placed in zigzag designs; there is a row each of red brown and black cherry bark flanking light yellow brown bark. Pattern horizontal on longest sides, vertical on ends. Other small design elements interspersed. Sturdy rim around base elevates basket. Imbricated and beaded upper basket edge in red brown cherry bark; lid with small loop handles, one at one end, the other, broken off (part c). Lid with beaded diamond patterns in red and black; faded. Base and top recessed rims are cracked and broken off.
Human face with a wrinkled forehead and large protruding ears, lips, eyebrows, and nose. The circular eyes are inset with mirrors and metal rims that are sunken in orange eye sockets. Long curvilinear grooves extend down the sides of the face to the shin from the ears. Cedar bark fringe attached at top of the head is short in the front and long in the back. The mask is painted with orange and blue on the forehead and ears, black brows with white underneath that extends down in a curve on either side of the face that forks at the end beside the mouth, orange around the eyes and on the nostrils and lips, orange and blue on the grooves at the sides of the face, and the remainder of the face is painted black.
Ornament in the shape of a flattened skull, carved and painted on both sides. The eye holes pierce through the wood, and the mouth is carved in a zigzag tooth pattern. The mouth and chin are painted red, and the remainder of the skull is painted white. There is a hole bored through chin, and one through top of head through which is tied to attach some shreds of cedar bark. There are also a few shreds of cedar bark in the chin hole.
Round, light brown grass basket with dyed orange and purple rings, orange flanked by purple at base, and purple at centre. Base is woven from thick grass. Braided cherry and cedar bark around rim and braided handle of dyed bark. Rim made oval by pulling from handle use.
Heart-shaped fibre bundle basket; sides created by bundled sweet grass coiled around in a continuous spiral and held together with a lashing of dark brown thread. Sides flare outward from a birch bark base decorated with a floral design of yellow and purple circles and crosses in quill work, much of which is missing. Coiling interrupted by openwork pattern formed by bundled grass stitched into one zigzag.