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Flat, circular woven mat, or tray, made in a coiled technique. The background is natural colour designs in brown and orange. Designs on mat are of two people joined by "hand" above a house type of structure, and next to a figure resembling animal head. Brown outer edge.
Model figure with brightly painted white, brown, blue, pink horizontal stripes around body. White pleated skirt, feet and hands. Head without facial features and a protruding area at the chin. Plume-like carved headpiece. Vegetable fibre rope running from left hand, over left shoulder behind head and up to right side of head. Black base. "Sacalumbo" written under base.
Dish-shaped basket with sides that flare upward and a round base. Design consists of two horizontal rows of brown downward pointing triangles in four equally spaced double-pairs surrounded by horizontal dark brown bands on a natural brown background. Dish has a short foot at the base.
A beaker-shaped coil basket that has a rounded cylindrical body which tapers downward to a flared outward footed base. Design consists of geometric dark brown zig zags horizontally all around.
Strip of reddish-brown folded bark cloth with repeated blue three-dot pattern forming a zigzag design on one face. Plant fibre twine tied around the bark cloth near the centre.
Long, flared, slightly curved blade (a) with a tapering tang; blade has a blunt, squared end with a barb at one corner. A tube-like double ferrule (part b), with raffia-like fibres tied through it, loosely rests on the tang.
Cape made of pandanus leaf that has been gathered at the neck and sewn with plant fibre. Flares outwards.
Two connected sheaths (a), one holding a long knife (b) and one a short dagger (c). The end of the bone sword handle is elaborately carved and decorated with blond, brown, red and black hair. The handle grip is wrapped in black fibre. The blade is in a flat wooden sheath lashed together with black, brown and natural fibre. The dagger has a carved wooden handle and is enclosed in a betel leaf bark sheath trimmed with red fibre. There is woven cord pulled through holes in the dagger's sheath.
A natural coloured cylindrical container with a top that is bound by a woven band. Container is decorated wtih horizontal bands of arabesque scrolls emphasized with dark pigment around the top and the bottom. Stopper has a seated figure carved on top. Figure sits on the ground with the feet angling inward while the elbows rest on the bent knees. Has bored circular eyes, a white face, and black hair which is flat across the top.
A cylindrical basket with a drawstring rim and a twisted fibre cord. The cord is currently looped through only two holes. There are two loops on the bottom of the basket. The basket is an open weave, made from brown materials and covered with a dark brown pigment.