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Circular, open basket with a straight-sided cylinder shape. Natural colour; base has brown cedar bark checker work centre surrounded by circular twining. Three equidistant decorative bands; one at rim, one at mid-point, and one at base. Each one is a small scale geometric design. Rim has band of dark blue/red with natural colour geometric design. Mid-point band is blue/green with natural horizontal and diagonal design. Base has band of dark blue/red with faded yellow geometric design similar to band on rim.
Round, straight-sided, sharp-shouldered basket with a reinforced hoop rim holding a flat, fitted lid (part b) in place. Cedar bark foundation with grass twining. Rim edged with double row of twining. Natural colour with very dark purple and yellow band at base of basket and at base of lid. Sides of basket and lid are very finely woven.
Circular basket (a) with flat-topped lid (b). Straight-sided cylindrical, shouldered with collared rim. Rim is reinforced hoop topped with braiding (?). Around base of lid are bands of purple, yellow and red. Purple centre on top of lid surrounded by solid rings of red, orange and green; and by two broken line rings; one of yellow and one of orange. Base of basket has bands of purple, yellow and red. Flat top of lid and bottom of basket have circular grass twining.
Round, straight-sided, sharp shouldered basket (a) with a raised, fitted lid (b). Cedar bark checker work foundation surrounded by grass twining. Rim is reinforced hoop of cedar bark, edged with two rows of twining. Natural colour with band of blue-purple with faded yellow zigzag design at base of basket and lid. Centre of lid has blue purple circular geometric design surrounded by seven spots of blue-purple. Small scale geometric design.
An arrow with several components: metal double-barbed point with a bark-covered fore-shaft wrapped with sinew, a short section of hollow reed (joining sleeve) a small shaft of carved wood (link shaft), another short joining sleeve, the main length of hollow reed ending with a notched wooden insert. Each joining sleeve is bound with sinew; the main shaft has two bindings, one strengthening the insert, the other repairing a break. All sinew is glued with a mixture of acacia gum and the melted hoof of a gemsbok. The link shaft and first sleeve are glued together with this mixture, as is the fore-shaft. The second joining sleeve is glued to the main shaft and bound to prevent splitting.
Two lengths of reed fitted together and bound with sinew in the middle. Sinew is dark brown.
Arrow is composed of two sections. Tan reed shaft is shaped at one end to fit the bow string, hollowed at the other end to hold black wood section. The reed shaft is bound at hollowed end with fibre, and fibre is wound along the length of the black shaft, which is pointed at both ends. The reed shaft is broken near the join of the two pieces.
Arrow composed of two attached sections: a reed shaft is shaped at one end to fit a bow string, and is hollowed at other end to hold a black wood section. The reed shaft is bound at hollowed end with fibre, and fibre is wound along the length of the black shaft which is pointed at both ends.
The basket is woven from natural coloured fibres in an open weave design. The rim is circular, but the basket sides slant inwards as the weaving ends in square corners and the base is made from two pieces of wood slotted together to form an 'X'. Bamboo branches run from the base to the rim on both the inside and outside of the basket. The outside branches are nailed to the inside branches. There are two loops on the outside of two of the branches at about the middle of the basket.
Closely woven rattan with four pieces of bamboo on sides and two pieces of plywood crisscrossed on bottom for support. Two rattan handles are attached to bamboo frames on same side of basket. A strip of bamboo circles the top. The pieces of bamboo frame are nailed into the rattan. Basket is wide at top tapering to a narrow bottom.