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Curved, tapering segment of translucent mottled brown musk ox horn. Area near the tip of the horn has a small indentation. The opposite end of the horn has been cut to create a flat surface.
Curved, tapering segment of translucent yellow-brown musk ox horn. Area near the tip of the horn has been carved to create a uniform indentation. The opposite end of the horn has been cut to create a flat surface.
Trumpet made of hollow bone wrapped with a cord and covered with a wax-like substance. The bell is of hammered copper with a brass trim. Bands of brass 2/3 in length above bell and at mouthpiece.
Elliptically shaped piece of leather with multiple holes cut through it. End of leather piece is tied to a long leather strip, upon which eight carved yellow-white and brown bone(?) segments are strung. The other end of the strip is tied to the looped end of a long metal needle-like object.
Part a is a case of heavy brown leather, rounded at the top and bottom edges with rounded protrusions below thick blue silk cord which is threaded through horizontally. Parts b-d are three tapered, hollow, brown-stained, cylindrical bone holders which are found inside case.
Spoon with shallow horn scoop hafted to another pointed horn. The inside surface of the bowl has incised decorations with inlaid shell and copper(?) decorations. The handle is carved in relief and also has inlaid shell decorations.
Horn spoon with intricately carved handle; scoop is shallow and undecorated. Handle's decoration is a hollow animal with inlaid abalone eyes and an upward protrusion that has two more inlaid circles on it sides.
Spoon with shallow scoop and narrow, pointed handle. Spoon is undecorated; scoop is demarcated from handle by a sharp cut.
Trumpet like horn. One end is a large darkened bone (human?), dark brown with two holes bored through one end. The other end is capped with a metal cap with a small hole in its centre. Half of the bone towards the metal-capped end is wound in gold-coloured metal wire; running from this wire towards the other end are four decorative bands of metal with raised designs that, excepting the central band, are each set with three red and blue stones or minerals.
Double-sided drum made from the tops of two skulls (human or simian), joined back to back with rawhide skin pulled over the open ends. A decorative metal band with raised patterning and red and green-coloured round stone-like objects mounted on it covers the joint in the centre. Attached to the metal band is a length of twined string with an egg-shaped, pitch-covered weight at the other end.