Dagger with carved animal head made of whale bone on butt end of handle. Animal's eyes, nostrils and teeth are made of abalone shells. Rest of handle is wrapped in braided fibre. Bolster is made of bone. Blade is long and triangular with a sharp pointed tip and a lengthwise rib. Blade is brown with a black mottled patina.

Stone carving of two barrels and a shotgun (part b) that sit on a stone base. The barrels are mainly a light green stone with black highlights and are attached to the base; the gun is mainly black and dark mottled green-grey stone, with a light green butt end and very small inlays of an ivory coloured material (bone?). The gun leans on the barrels and has a small round attachment on the base to hold the butt end in place. The carving is signed and dated by artist on underside of the base.

Egret bone tube that is y-shaped with two balls of resin on the tips of the bone and holes in the tops. Resin also near the base, where the two pieces of bone split off. Two prongs are tied with cumare string.

Ivory coloured tobacco snuff container made of a snail shell. There is resin around base of shell, attaching hollow tube made of wild pig bone, and glass on the underside of the shell, allowing visibility of the shell’s interior.

Egret bone tube, used to snort tobacco snuff. Long, hollow tube with resin in the centre.

Ivory coloured flute made of deer bone. Long hollow tube with a hole for the mouth, three finger holes along the side, and an open triangle shaped end.

Ivory coloured flute made of deer bone. Long hollow tube with a hole for the mouth, three finger holes along the side, and an open triangle shaped base. Flute is dark brown near the base and the mouth hole.

Man's neck ornament composed of two narrow panels covered with dark gray and turquoise feathers (it looks like bird skins are sewn to cotton cloth); a front pendant with a hollow bird-bone flute flanked by two small bird bodies and long red Scarlet macaw feathers; and a smaller back pendant made of outspread bird wings surrounded by additional feathers. Each section is attached with a fiber cord. The bird bodies (Cotinga?) on the front pendant are small and flattened with attached feathers in purple, white, turquoise blue, black, gray, and red; the bird bodies are surrounded by six long red Scarlet Macaw feathers, which are decorated with disks of turquoise and dark blue feathers at the tips. The bird body on the back pendant has two outspread black wings, a turquoise feather disk and a small red feather, surrounded by additional blue, yellow and orange feathers. The ornament is worn during a male child's naming ceremony during which the flute is played. Condition: good; one of the turquoise feather disks on the long red Scarlet Macaw feathers is missing.

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Gift of J.L. Greason