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Iron stem wrapped with copper wire. Incised simple design around the bowl hide band near the junction of the stem and the bowl.
Cup-shaped clay pot with a band of incised diagonal lines just below the lip on the outside. Bottom is flat, and the surface is mottled dark brown and light brown-white.
A small clay bowl with a rounded bottom and straight upright sides. Decorated with brown vertical lines on grey around the sides of the bowl. Fingernail markings along the rim.
Clay jug with rounded sides, a straight neck, and a flat bottom. The jug is decorated with incised parallel lines and a band of dots around the neck. At the shoulder is a scallop pattern, and each crescent has been painted red. The rim of the jug is also red, and there are dark grey firing marks overall.
Snuff container in the form of an ox with a rough, studded body. The ox has long thin horns and small tail. A hole at the centre of the forehead that opens to a cavity inside the body of the ox.
Basketry-covered pottery jar. Base: plain twined or wicker-weave in coarse grass. Sides: wrapped twined weave with openwork of crossed warp. Two bands of openwork frame two bands with faded designs. Two narrow bands of purple near the base complete the decoration. The jar which forms the frame of the basket is glazed in dark brown (possibly a Chinese ginger jar). Colour: natural.
Bulbous container with white beads attached around the neck. Hide is hardened and in the form of a textured gourd.
Kamba made of a calabash sounding chamber with a burned dotted design. The sticks supporting the sounding board are fixed into clay around the rim of the calabash. These sticks include the four legs at an angle with each pair connected by rope which goes through, and attaches a long flat rectangular wood piece with pointed ends. There is a stick (part b) which tapers at one end that has five angled sides.
Upright pipe with lower round bowl incised with crosshatching and arrow point design and a stem that flares at the end. There is a slightly conical spout halfway down the stem.
"Divining tortoise" figure made from a reddish clay-covered tortoise shell, ornamented with rows of red and black abrus(?) seeds. There is a tube protruding from the bottom.