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Flat-based, rounded jar with tapering neck and flared lip (a) covered in a woven grass sleeve; round woven lid (b) with knob handle in the centre attached to jar with brown thread. Cedar bark and grass base in plain twining with central checker work. Design of six concentric bands of linear patterning with various colour combinations: orange, green, purple, and red.
Coiled round tray with a five coil rim and two-coil loop handles. Coils become wider as they progress from centre outward. Geometrical red and black cherry bark and grass imbrication on inner surface of tray. Band imbrication on outer side of rim. Broken handle attached with string.
Part (a) Coiled circular urn shaped basket (with bifurcated stitches) with lid part (b). Basket has two-coil foot with cherry bark beading on bottom row. Imbricated design of criss-crossing diagonal bands forming connected diamonds, in rows of dark cherry bark, bear grass, and red cherry bark. Imbrication on round lid has same rows of colour in three peaks. Coiled string for handle at center. Flange under lip of lid.
Coiled burden basket in a traditional trapezoidal shape. Beaded cherry bark in bands decorate the basket. One side of the basket has two hide loops to which a denim fabric tumpline style carrying strap has been attached.
Elliptically shaped cradle made of white-yellow hide stretched over a frame constructed from split branches; branch frame is bound together with cotton gauze. Hide is stitched around the top rim of the cradle with black thread.
Arrow consisting of a long cylindrical wooden shaft with one notched end and a metal point at the other, secured with wrapped sinew. The triangular point has a double notched base and a narrow stem. At the midpoint of the metal stem has an oval hole. String is tied around stem where stem enters the shaft. At opposite end of shaft are two strips of feather secured by wrapped sinew. Red pigment, possibly ochre, is present on the basal end. The basal end of the shaft is notched.
Rectangular, flared, coiled root basket (bifurcated stitches). Elongated watch-spring construction. Imbricated rows of alternating red and dark cherry bark and grass imbrication, however the grass is mostly broken away from the surface. Cotton string attached to rim of one corner, jute cord attached to rim of 3 other corners. Remnants of hide loops attached to long sides of basket.
Coiled rectangular lid. Handle in centre of lid has string foundation and was wrapped with grass. Grass is partly detached from foundation. Rim of lid has cedar bark foundation with wrapped grass intertwined. Only one corner has rim decoration, remainder has broken off. Top of lid has red and black cherry bark and grass imbrication in arrowhead geometrical design.
A bundle originally wrapped in bark (part a) (now fragmented). Contains two river pebbles (parts b-c) rubbed with red ochre, a string of cassowary feathers about 42 cm. long (part d), a length of cotton cord, (part e) on which, there are threaded small fibre balls and at the end of which, there is a 3 cm. long strip of red cloth, one fossil (part f) and two pieces of obsidian (parts g-h).
Round, coiled basket with a foot, a handle (34.5 cm long), and a twined loop work rim. Sides and bottom are split stitches over slat foundation. Handle has bundle foundation. Foot, handle, and row below the loop work rim are beaded in red-brown. Imbricated with geometric designs of three horizontal zig zag rows with black in the middle and red-brown above and below.