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A wood reel like object with four rectangular bars; each pair is connected diagonally from its partner with two perpendicular oval-like wood pieces. There is a hollow cylindrical piece at the centre which allows the object to rotate and open.
Coloured and patterned paper glued to a bamboo frame. A red paper ring serves as the base, onto which five standing human silhouettes are glued facing outwards at equal distances from one another.
Dark brown molded leather hat with wide brim. Two curved dark brown strips of bamboo are suspended underneath the hat.
Part a is the handle of an adze. It has an acute angle to the head where a blade would be hafted. The head is wrapped with dried grass, which would have aided the hafting process. Part b is an adze blade of stone. It has an edge at one end and then tapers slightly toward other end which is missing. Part c is the missing fragment of part b.
The bamboo instrument (part a) is a plucked idiophone known as mukkuri in Ainu. It is made of a flat long wooden stick which extends into a wider rectangular shape at one end. Within the first piece there are two slits which go along the stick in a prong-like shape; a red string loop is attached. The second piece (part b) is a paper document with orange designs and black and white writing characters with a picture of the object in the bottom middle.
Long metal sword (part a) with decorative leather casing (part b). End of sword handle is metal-tipped, has series of red coloured scalloped edges and ends with a green scalloped piece that holds the blade. Beyond the green piece is the sword sheath or casing. Body of casing is shaped by a series of six thin-edged knobs that are spaced with three narrow areas and are decorated with two large centralized shield-like knobs on either side of the sword. Each are decorated with interwoven geometric designs made of black, light-yellow and dark red grasses(?). Attached to the two large central knobs are two brown toggles with two strands of looped black cording. Hanging downwards from the central knobs are two long and wide overlapping leather flaps with spaghetti-thin pieces of leather. The long flaps are decorated with intricately cut and dyed geometric designs, as is the tapered, oval-shaped tip of the swords' sheath.
Round-bottomed jar with very low shoulder and tall, wide, flared neck. Neck is decorated with patterns of incised lines; patterns from shoulder up are: two wavy bands; band of vertical lines; band of diagonal lines that go up to the right and; band of rectangles with cross-hatching fill separated by vertical lines. Woven bamboo holder around base.
Dark bulbous jar with rounded bottom and short, flared neck; handle at one side from shoulder to mid body. Single strand of grass(?) with other strand twined around it circles neck; red yarn inside. Bottom half of body is fire darkened.
Pair of dark-brown coloured wooden sandals with light-brown twisted grass straps and black fibre ties. Rectangular-shaped with rounded edges and straight sides. Underside of both sandals have two large drilled holes in the centre and one large drilled hole at each end. Grass straps have been threaded through and tied with knots in three of the holes near the top of the sandals.
Vertical rectangular box made of coloured paper laid over a bamboo frame. Box has two red vertical bars across the top--four paper fish silhouettes are laid across the bars, with an additional fish glued to the box in the background, creating a sense of depth. Across the top of the box is a wide strip of red paper printed with gold circular shapes with characters in the centre. Two red paper pennants fly from the top corners of the box.