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Spear (a) with sheath (b). Spear (a) has a long steel lanceolate-shaped blade, shiny with some tarnish and etched lines echoing its shape. Blade is connected to a shaft by a corroded metal fitting. The shaft appears to be a broom handle wrapped with bark. At one end the bark has uncoiled. The black sheath (b) is two pieces of wood held together by five bands of metal wrapped and beaten together. Nose and eye shapes are incised into the wood to achieve a bird-like face. The narrow end is carved with a geometric design.
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.
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.
Coiled basket (with bifurcated stitches). Watch-spring construction. Imbricated design of two full butterflies and two half butterflies at rim. One set is of black cherry bark with grass, one set is red cherry bark with grass.
Medium-sized, wide, plain open twine, yellow brown basket with an uneven, wrapped rim in alternating brown bark and yellow grass.
Large rectangular coiled basket with a wrapped rim. Inward pointing triangular geometric pattern in yellow, red, yellow and red/yellow, yellow/black.
Coiled basket with imbrication in a zigzag design of black, yellow, and red, repeating. Bottom edge is black imbrication. The coils increase in size from the bottom. Top edge is tightly braided. There is a red stain on inside bottom and sides near bottom.
Coiled cedar slat and root basket, with imbrication and beading. There is red bark on the upper edge, every three coils (with some coils missing). Lower edge is imbricated with red bark, every five to ten coils. Geometric plant-like design in black and red cherry bark. The bottom has watchspring coil construction.
Single piece of light brown bark, brown white with cross-grain flecks on the interior. Rectangular base with v-cut sides sewn with thin strips of bark. Oval-shaped mouth is reinforced with two thin sticks sewn in place. The outside has a black pencil line on one side near the top and there is a number in pencil on the base.
Grey-green/brown wood wolf's head and four long petal-shaped pieces glued by pitch to the neck, then tied with strips of red-brown birch bark. The wolf is carved with tapering oval eyes, grooved pointed ears, a rounded nose, and a tongue that hangs out.