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Two boar tusks are tightly bound with rattan through single holes drilled through the root ends; tips are held widely apart. They are dark in colour and show evidence of drill holes at ends.
Two boar tusks drilled at both ends, tied together through single holes at the root end with bast string. Two separate bast strings are looped through the holes at the tip ends, each knotted several times.
Ornament made from boar tusks. Two semi-circular boar tusks tied together at each end with light brown cane-like grass strips, to form a circular ornament. Two holes have been bored through each end of the tusks to insert the ties. The exterior of the ornament is white with dark brown grooves and dots. The interior of the ornament is dark brown. The interior of the tusks is visible at one end of the ornament and is of a dark brown colour. One side of the ornament is smaller in diameter than the other side due to the shape of the tusks.
Ceramic pot with three vertical protrusions coming out of the top. The pot is round and glazed in multiple hues of brownish-grey. The pot is topped with three protrusions, into which three sanded and stained wood branch-like pieces (two slightly curved and one bent and curved at an angle between the other two) have been inserted and wrapped at their bases with light brown braided natural fibre twine. Each "branch" is topped with a curved wild-boar tusk.
Large contemporary woven string bag (bilum) decorated with dyed stripes, different types of shells, chicken feathers, wooden beads, branches with seeds, small fan-shapes made of cut-up plastic packages, possum jaws, boar tusks and pieces of tapa cloth.
A circular boar's tusk drilled at the larger end and held by coiled vegetable fibres. The tusk has more than a 360 degree curve.
Tall wood carving of an ancestor figure standing on a mounded base. Covered with carved body tattoos, a mask-like face on each shoulder, a protruding belly, and large genitalia hanging out from behind a bark loin cloth attached to a grass belt, the figure wears an elaborate mask painted in white, red and black pigments. The mask has large cowrie shell eyes, boar tusks sticking out of the nostrils, elaborate earrings, a feather headdress plus fringe of feathers, and is surrounded with a clay border into which are embedded numerous tiny shells.
Ornament made of woven plant fibre and two boar tusks. The tusks curved inward to a narrow woven basket covered at the bottom with fur. The basket has a black and yellow pattern and tapers towards the top. There is a green string attached to the basket end.
The tusks form a circle with their bases connected with red fabric and woven bands attached to the centre where there are two teeth.
Boar tusk and bush banana tips necklace. The tusks are wrapped to the strand of bush banana tips with two types of fibre. The banana tips are strung on a clear plastic fibre.