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Headdress that tapers to a spiked segment with a tuft of off-white and brown feathers at the top and has four faces around the base with two protruding, tapering and curved arms opposite each other just below the spiked segment. Tufts of plant fibre attached through holes along the bottom edge. Painted with white, black, orange-brown, and yellow details and geometric designs.
Model house on stilts with a door, a wooden plank floor, and a plain gable roof. Constructed from palm leaves folded over wooden sticks and secured with thin sticks woven through slits in the leaves, and these are secured over a wooden frame with twined plant fibre.
Hat made of leaf sewn together with plant fibre and stem and bell-shaped overall. The rim, which has a short indented section, is sewn with twined plant fibre(?) stitches that form a braided edge, and the sides of the hat are stitched together in rows with twined plant fibre(?). The roughly circular piece of leaf at the top of the crown is stitched on with thick pieces of plant stem(?). There is a fibre strap inside with a metal coin attached.
A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a densely crocheted circle at the centre with an overlay of eleven inward pointing triangular designs around the periphery, surrounded by looser crocheting, surrounded by dense crocheting. The outer band is of looser crocheting forms that has very small outer scallops all around.
A book (part a) and a feather (part b). The book (part a) has a brown cover and a title of 'W'iigyet's Journey' in black on the front. The pages are white with black lettering and artwork in red and black. A few pages have 'pop-up' artwork. Sections include the following: 'Introduction', 'W'ii Gyet's First Home', 'Feast of the Sun for The Creatures of the Forest', and 'Acknowledgements'. The book is signed and dated on the last page: 'Limited Edition of 10 / W'ii Gyet's Journey / August 2002 / Author / Artist Doreen Jensen / Collaborator / Paper Engineer cindy chan piper / Date December 2002 Edition No. 10'. The dark grey feather (part b) is attached to a twisted cedar bark cord and acts as a bookmark.
Bag made of woven plant fibre with several rows of intentional holes in the weaving, and four rows of light grey seed ornamentation with a thin band of grey pigment at the top, a thick band of light red pigment across the middle, and a band of red pigment along the bottom. The sides of the bag are also decorated with a band of grey seeds, there is a woven strap attached to the reverse, and there is a thick band of grey seeds with several dangling elements composed of a red seed, a segment of black reed(?), a red seed, a grey seed, and an off-white feather at the tip. There are two clusters of orange-brown and black thin feathers at either side of the bag front.
Twenty-one long teeth are woven tightly together at varying intervals and decorated with blue and red beads in an alternating geometric design pattern. Three teeth from each outer edge and three teeth from the middle are extended to form a longer three-pronged handle decorated with blue and red beads in an alternating geometric design pattern.
A light brown cylindrical handle, thinner in between the flared outward ends. One end has a tassel with braided bases of numerous strands of vegetable fibres forming the whisk.
Ten whale teeth with holes drilled into them, attached together by a braided, brown coir fibre cord.
Long tubular drinking straw made of faded yellow and red-brown coiled vegetable fibre. One end has a woven strainer and the other has a mouth piece that curves to one side. Paper sticker on the side of the tube near the strainer.