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The cloth is rectangular, long and narrow and dyed brown. There are no finished edges or designs.
Skirt formed by a woven waistband that has been dyed dark brown and several strands of flax stalk that have been beaten at intervals and the beaten sections dyed (?) black to form a geometric pattern.
Tapa cloth with brown and black painted on natural ground. A grid-like border outlined with brown, runs around the outside and divides the designs into five rows. The words "OLEALAVAA" and "LILIA AND PEAUX MANUA" are incorporated into the border. The designs have geometric motifs within hand-drawn boxes. The edges are cut in a large zigzag pattern.
One crab claw-like sail and two cabins. The deck is constructed on two canoe-shaped pontoons. Linear geometric designs in red and black consisting of lines, triangles, and dots.
Round basketry tray of simple interlocking coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with watch-spring base construction and two coiled rows separated off into handles. Overcast rim and partial imbrication. Twelve pointed star (red and white alternating with black) and a row of tri-colour chevron figures and band of staggered two row figures. Exterior has imbricated figures, the same as the outermost band of the interior pattern.
A simple woven rattan handle to secure long strips of grass.
Bag with a trapezoidal shape and two flat woven handles. The bag is woven with dark brown bark and off-white palm leaf to form a v-shape composed of dotted lines, and geometric patterns. Several fringes along top edge.
Bag woven from alternating grey-brown, red-brown and natural grass and bark in a geometric design. Two bands of woven grass(?) are attached at the top edges as handles, and there is a braided grass string threaded through loops near the top edge of the bag with short lengths of red-brown bark at either side of the bag.
Long, slender spear with a white stone point, a wooden shaft, and a bamboo handle. Yellow and white spots near the head. Remnants of white paint (?) on the shaft. Chipped stone head is wrapped and secured with pitch to the shaft.
Rectangular flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches). Parallel slat base construction. Upper half of basket is beaded on three sides in horizontal rows of staggered cat-tail grass (?) and dark cherry bark. Lower half has vertical beading in red cherry bark. Fourth side has two vertical bands in red, and dark cherry bark. Beading on rim of short bands of red, and dark, cherry bark. Fibre string at each corner.