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Chipped obsidian blade set into wood and attached to a cane shaft. Geometric decoration, outlined with string and accented with inset beads. Obsidian blade is triangular in cross section and comes to a point. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: red, white, and black triangles; a red pyramid carved with a downward pointing white leaf point on all four sides; and four sets of four seeds around red, white, and black trapezoids.
Two poles (parts a-b) joined with cloth and pitch and with seeds set in pitch (part c). Plain except for the red seeds set in the black pitch which joins the sticks.
Long thin hardwood point set into cane shaft. A plain shaft of ten cane joints with the last one at the base of the point wrapped with stem ? to hold the point. The long dark point is plain. The end of the shaft is wrapped with fibre in a wide round bundle.
Long hardwood point set into softwood shaft. The shaft is painted in sections of white, red, and black from bottom to top and appears to have had some coiling around the lower white area. The end of the shaft has a bit of coiling fibre. The base of the shaft is wrapped with fibre. The long dark red-brown point is plain.
Plain dark finish. Long, hollow, cylindrical brown wood piece that has one bulbous end decorated with two horizontal grooves around it.
Money in the form of a coil of bark fibre with red scarlet honeyeater bird's feathers and pigeon feathers gummed to the bark. The feathers overlap like shingles. The money is in several parts: a) a segment with nearly all of the scarlet honeyeater feathers intact; b) coil of bark fibre with pigeon feathers attached; c) coil of bark fibre with pigeon feathers and remains of some scarlet honeyeater feathers attached; d) coil of bark fibre with pigeon feathers and remains of some scarlet honeyeater feathers attached; e) coil of bark fibre with pigeon feathers and remains of some scarlet honeyeater feathers attached; f) end segment of woven fibre and bark with a roughly square piece of tortoise (?) shell lashed to the bark and light grey Job's Tears seeds at the edge as well as a segment of braided bark strap; g) four pieces of coil.
The wooden shaft is peeled of all bark and one end appears to have been cut off. The other end originally held a white stone point, which is now missing. The point was attached to the shaft with resin, part of which remains there. The shaft and resin are coated with an ochre-like pigment.
Red-brown double reed whistle that is oval in cross section and bound in three sections with brown string, two near each end and one near the middle. While the wider end is solid, there are two hollows through the smaller end where there is a taper cut elongated semi-oval hole nearby at either side. Sealed with pitch.
Red-brown double reed whistle that is square in cross section and tapers to a rectangular shape and bound at the wider end with brown string. While the wider end is solid and has a human face carved on it, there are two hollows through the smaller end where there is a taper cut elongated semi-oval hole nearby at either side. Seams were sealed with pitch but have split.
Brown double reed whistle that is rectangular in cross section and comes to a tapering end and is bound with brown twine around near the tapering end. While the wider end is solid, there are two hollows through the smaller end where there is a taper cut semi-oval hole nearby one one side and a taper cut rectangular hole on the opposite side. Covered with pitch.