BODY ART: MARKS OF IDENTITY (AMNH, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 1999)

Pink painted wooden carving of Adão (Adam) holding a large green fig-leaf (part b) over his genitals, with blue painted eyes and red lips. The figure has hair on his head, around his pubic area, and for eyelashes, moustache and goatee, which is made of a mixture of curly stands of dark hair and a thick resin-like substance. The standing figure is nailed to a circular green base and has arms that rotate. (Pair with "Eva", 2843/21).

Small burnished brown and black pot with flat base. A lid (part b), made from circular piece of gourd with small hole to one edge, has been sealed on with a dark resin-like substance that still adheres in part around rim of both pot and lid.

Large gourd container with two dark brown animal figures painted on the side. A spout at the top, fashioned from a tube of bamboo, is encased in a ring of dark resin-like substance into which are embedded a few yellow seeds.

Pink painted wood carving of Eva (Eve) with blue eyes and red lips, holding a large green fig-leaf over her pubic area. Hair on the head and around the pubis, as well as the eyebrows and eyelashes is made of a mixture of curly stands of dark hair and a thick resin-like substance. The standing figure has arms that rotate and is nailed to a circular green base. (Pair with "Adão", 2843/20).

Container narrowing at top and bottom. The base (a) is concave and the mouth rim is tightly wrapped. The container is coiled in ten vertical sections. Cowrie shells are knotted on at the shoulder. The lid (b) also has cowrie shells knotted on just above the lip.

Armour has triangular plates hung by dark blue cord onto a thin black band. Part (a) has four plates; part (b) has three plates. The plates are made of five black lacquer ware pieces strung together with green cord.

Very plain instrument with several finger holes. Eight sections of bamboo of varying lengths are inserted into the gourd and tied around with rattan. One set of four bamboo sections are of relatively equal length, being shorter than the other set of four, of which, the two tallest ones are in the middle. The gourd has a hole.

Bow made of a segment of cylindrical hardwood that tapers towards the ends and a length of hide string tied at the ends. The wood is wrapped in bark fibre (?) at either end on the inside of the hide wrapping, and this fibre is coated in black tar resin.

The fan has thin black-brown feathers and a decorated handle. The handle is made from a piece of wood doubled over and covered in a thick black substance, possibly resin. Pushed into the black substance are many teardrop-shaped gray seeds. There is one large blue bead among the seeds.