Shark tooth amulet with a perforation at the wide end. [MJD 17/08/2009]

Realistic representation of shark head is painted bluish gray with carved black eyes and red gill lines. Worn with nose pointing upwards, the beard and the mouth, made up of part of the jaw and teeth of a shark set above a row of squared white wood teeth, are therefore facing forward. The headdress has long strands of grass fibres hanging from the sides and a foam lining around the interior rim. The jaw is held in with nails and two strands of woven synthetic rope are knotted and pulled through holes in the wood.

Realistic representation of shark head is painted white and black with carved black eyes and red gill lines. Worn with nose pointing upwards, the beard and the mout,h made up of the jaw and teeth of a shark, are therefore facing forward. The headdress has long strands of grass fibres hanging from the sides and a foam lining around the interior rim. The jaw is held in with nails and two strands of woven synthetic rope are knotted and pulled through holes in the wood.

Tapered, cylindrical, brown wood shaft that has four rows of teeth with opposing sides of equal length. Shark teeth are secured by twisted fibre string. The longer sides have fifty-three teeth while the shorter sides have twenty-two teeth. A band of triple black hair interwoven with woven palm leaf decorates the wider end of the toothed portion. Three equally spaced bands of black hair are along the length of the toothed portion.

Tapered, rounded cylindrical, red-brown wood handle. Wood is carved into five oval shaped, evenly spaced, forms. Fifty shark's teeth line each of the two sides of the wood and are secured by twisted fibre string. Woven black and yellow fibres form coloured bands at both ends of the 'blade'.