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Large woven bag (bilum). The bag is loosely woven and expandable. Its shape is rectangular with a rounded bottom. The opening is wide. The body of the bag has alternating horizontal bands of a natural light yellow-brown with either dark grey, tan or blue-green. A long wide handle or tumpline of alternating natural, tan and dark grey colours is attached to the bag at the corners of the bag's opening.
Large looped net bag (bilum), loosely woven and expandable. The handle or tumpline is circular with the body woven from the handle. Due to the curve at the top, the bag is narrow at the shoulder, widening toward a rounded rectangular bottom. The opening is wide. The body of the bag has horizontal bands of red alternating with bands of brown or green.
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Wooden fish hook with bone point lashed on with cedar bark. A length of nettle fibre twine is tied to the hook and wound around it. [LM 18/06/2007]
Wooden halibut hook with iron nail bound on as barb and carved with an octopus figure. [CAK 26/06/2009]
Woven bag with rows of geometric shapes in red, blue, black, yellow and green. Different pattern on other side of with similar shapes in brown, black, red and blue. Skin loops at top and bottom corners on one side, and skin thong loops all around the opening.
Cylindrical, light beige-coloured woven basket with a flat bottom and straight sides--geometric patterning in pink, red, purple, yellow, orange and blue encircles the sides.
A band of brown string wound over wood, tapering to two arms with loops, one fitted through the other. The top feathers are red, green, yellow, white, blue, and grey and decorate the wide part. Cowrie shells line the lower edge. Below, on strings, there are hanging two lines of small cowries, two single cowrie shells and two fragments of other shells.
Upward flaring, rounded, cylindrical basket decorated with a light yellow-brown vertical zigzag pattern on a brown background. Rim is looped.
Knotted net bag of nettle fibre--decreases in diameter toward the bottom. Top edge attached to twisted cedar rope. This rope is attached on two sides to a wooden loop made by bending a twig and lashing the ends together. (These were probably attached to sticks as a means of suspending the net.)