Large, tall ceramic jug covered in a yellow glaze with a small handle that connects at the middle of the base to the top of the rim. There is a brown line detailing the rim of the jug and bottom of the base. The underside reads: ‘Ekuluware; Enugu, Nigeria’.

Ceramic, glazed blue leaf-shaped dish with incised surface detailing. The underside reads: ‘Ekulu Ware; Enugu, Nigeria’.

Ceramic, glazed yellow leaf-shaped dish with incised surface detailing. The underside reads: ‘Ekulu Ware; Enugu, Nigeria’.

Ceramic, glazed green leaf-shaped dish with incised surface detailing. The underside reads: ‘Enugu, Nigeria’.

Red clay, ceramic teapot covered in a black matte glaze. The pot (part a) has a semi-circular handle engraved with a central, elongated oval flanked by four semi-circular indentations. The spout is oval shaped with a pointed end and is attached to a long neck that connects to a triangular-like shaped body with rounded corners. Incised lines on the exterior. The lid (part b) is flat and circular with a protruding cylindrical shaped knob.

An oil lamp made of low-fired ceramic with a roughly applied shiny green glaze over a buff-coloured body, which shows on the base. The top of the lamp is bowl-shaped, placed on a cylinder that flares towards the bottom, which is in the shape of a low saucer. There is a decorative ring slightly more than halfway up the cylinder.

Carved and painted female figure with bird head and wings is seated on a two-legged stool. She wears a grass skirt and ropes around her ankles, wrists and neck, the last having a single shell attached. The beige bird head has painted decoration in red and black, Cowrie shell eyes and, at the top, a ridge of cassowary feathers tufting out from a clay base studded with tiny shells.

Wood sculptural group, carved and painted with yellow, reddish orange and cream pigments, rises from a mound-shaped base with eyes. Tall standing figure with elaborate facial mask is wrapped with snakes; two large ones coiled around its shoulders, another two swallowing its legs and one hangs down from its nose between its legs to end with a huge head at the back. A large spotted bird is perched on two pointed bamboo branches behind the figure's head and two small figures holding pointed spears in each arm stand guard at its feet, one at each side, facing outward. All figures wear grass skirts and have clay topped heads embedded with shell and grass hair. All eyes are shell and strands of twisted rope with attached shells and seeds hang from all noses, ears, necks, wrists and ankles.

Painted wood carving of a skin cutting figure. A horn-billed bird, a male with large genitalia wearing a white mask with grass hair, and a small crocodile with curled barbed tail are stretched out, one behind the other, and clinging to the bottom of an inverted canoe with a carved crocodile head prow. All figures are adorned with shell eyes, twisted grass bracelets and anklets, and they are decorated with white, red, and ochre designs over a dark brown background, as is the canoe.

Bulbous dark brown clay smoke pot with rounded bottom narrowing neck and mouth with flared lip. Two faces with protruding pointed noses and raised eyes and mouth have been carved on opposite shoulders, with swirling carved decoration in between. Numerous holes have been cut into the lower portion and a handle of wound grass loops up from large holes at the neck.