Found 15,773 items made of Refine Search .
Found 15,773 items made of Refine Search .
The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.
View TutorialLog In to see more items.
Bamboo tube engraved by thin wire geometric bands. Has a crown-shaped end. Long, heavy brass wire is secured to the bamboo near the crown-shaped end.
Pipe made from a length of bamboo with bands of spiral patterns emphasized with red paint. Several bands of tooled lead foil as well as two black bands separate the bands of design. There are two pieces of protruding bamboo at the closed end of the pipe, and there is a hole in the side of the pipe near that end.
Ceremonial knife with a long, straight blade and a dark brown wooden handle. Handle decorated with braided bands; blade has a coating of old varnish and the end has two barbs.
Rectangular basket with splint foundation and coiled elements of cedar root. Fully imbricated in grass with red and black cherry bark. Foot is beaded in red cherry bark in three coiled rows. Slat bottom. Has steel handles. Fully imbricated and beaded. Designs in black and red cherry bark that consist of zigzags that stretch to the full height of the basket in black/red/black. Also diamonds in red and black with geometric shapes in between.
Painted wooden mask with a humanistic white face and black head covering. Facial features are painted: the thick frowning lips are red; protruding nose (with the tip nailed on) is blue; the areas surrounding the eyes and cheeks are also blue, with a downward point. The eyes themselves are white, outlined in black, with round black centres, and black eyebrows. On both sides of the head protruding metal discs have been nailed on, near the top. There are two holes in the wood at the top of the head covering, with a strip of wood between.
Small, mottled brown and white rattle made from horn, folded over and wired together along the sides. Handle is bound with swamp grass and has remnants of feathers tucked along one side.
Transformation mask or headdress made from cut out planks of wood formed into a triangular-shape. Flat sides with a thin adjoining nose piece and two rectangular shaped pieces of wood at the back. Detailed in blue, black, yellow, white, green and red stylized forms. The creature on the outside (possibly a lightning serpent?) has large black eyes outlined in yellow, rectangular shaped ears and white bared teeth. The mask opens to reveal a thunderbird inside, with a large white articulated beak, black eyes and a red and black head. There are numerous feathers attached to a thin metal strip; three strips line the top and back of the mask. Inside has a curved flat metal piece used to hold the mask onto a head.
Harpoon head that consists of a flat iron bar. Point section consists of two very large barbs on the same side and bifacially bevelled blade -point (cutting edge 3/4" wide). Butt end has a large hole sliced through (presumably to attach a line).
Plain shaft with a leaf-shaped barbed point. The barbs are horizontal and there are four pair.
Shaft is in two parts. End is charred and appears to be mahogany. The point is leaf-shaped with a long base.