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Stylized, seated gull carved from weathered whale bone. Dense bone appears only at top of head and along part of one side. The rest is porous, darker bone. Bird's head is raised up with open beak and circular indentations for eyes. Series of parallel channels indicate wings. Clawed feet extend slightly out at front.
Figure kneeling on one leg in front of a round hole in a flat rectangular platform (a) a smaller figure also kneels beside the hole. The larger figure is dressed in a parka with the hood down. His hair is indicated by a series of lines. Facial features include curved ears, a long straight nose, deep, small oval eyes and a small straight mouth. In his raised right hand he holds a leister spear (e) with a wooden shaft and three ivory prongs (g) attached to the shaft with wrapped thread. The leister holds a fish (part b). In the other hand he holds an ivory jig hook on a thread, tied to a wooden handle (d). The smaller figure has his hood up and similar facial features as the larger figure. A separate spoon (c) has a detachable wooden handle (f). Disc number inscribed on bottom reads E8 503.
Stylized sloping antler figure (part a) held by a peg onto leaf shaped bone platform (b). Figure is long and slender with head at one end, single front limb holds up figure from peg in platform. Inset baleen eyes in curved orbits, flares out at wide nose with drilled nostrils, deep mouth above curved chin. Dense white antler on top of head, porous grey antler at face and at thinner portions of figure. There are two limbs stretched out behind extended belly. Feet rest on leaf stem. Leaf platform is long, thin and tapers on both ends. The surface is uneven. Four characters are inscribed on bottom of platform.
Cylindrical handle that flares outward at the bottom with geometric designs on the lower half consisting of the main compressed longitudinal zig zags surrounded by a horizontal row of zig zags at the upper end, separated from the bone or shell inlaid star design along the upper half. There is a bone or shell inlaid star on the bottom end of the handle. Carved melon-shaped head that has many thin protrusions all around and a large boss on the end with a bone or shell inlaid star design.
Porous whale bone head on a round base. Features include the following: short, parted hair, oval eyes, triangular nose and a crescent-shaped mouth.
A bundle wrapped in red trade cloth (part a), bound with rattan (part b), and containing a fossilized animal (reptile?) mandible (part c) covered with red ochre and wrapped with matted marsupial fur.
Stylized whale-shaped bone toggle with two pairs of holes off-centre at ridge on convex side; tapers to each end with knob at one end; blunt at other end. Concave surface has slight ridge along centre.
An awl of cassowary leg bone, tapering to a point, and grooved near the joint end. The joint is dark brown while the point is light yellow. The surface, except for the joint, is extremely smooth, polished through use.
Bone spoon; bowl is shallow and narrow; handle end tapers to rounded end. Some dark brown cortex is left on convex spoon back and patches on handle and concave spoon bowl.
Curved, dense, brown, bow-shaped bone with hole at one end, broken at the other.