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Coiled, rectangular basket with bundle foundation on sides and bottom, and split stitching. Design is of alternating rows of patterned beading and plain rows. Patterned beading is black and red-brown. There is one row of plain black beading around base. Rim is slightly damaged.
Basket, circular as viewed from the top, with bundle foundation, watch-spring coil bottom, split stitching and imbricated geometric design in light yellow-brown diagonal bands flanked by a series of triangles. This motif repeats around the basket with the triangles alternating between two sets of black and one red.
Open twined carrier, or cradle, with semi-circular cross-section, wedge-shaped at the bottom with a closed end while open at the top. Wrapped handle forms top structural support and is wrapped in sections of light yellow-brown bear grass. Dark brown bark(?) stick-like warps form a semi-circle out from the handle crossed by clusters of widely spaced twining. Wedge-shaped bottom is twined across the back and up the front. There is one twisted support across the top of the cradle.
Round, open twined plate curving up at the sides. Two rows of multi-ply 2 strand braided rim. Rigid stick-like warps are bound with evenly spaced rows of twined split root weft elements. Warps form a triangular pattern.
Flat, round, twined tray with concentric design bands on the top surface and two sets of two wrapped, raised rings on the bottom and at the rim and over halfway to the centre. Design includes the following: light yellow-white bear grass at the rim and alternating brown background in the third row; and wide band of overlaid bear grass with three repeating band-like motifs, each with similar triangular appendages. Two of these appendages have a diagonal row of black fern stem at one end; single row of background; row of alternating bear grass and background; two rows of bear grass; three rows with evenly alternating rows; and several centre rows that are the background.
An arrow shaft, 91 cm. long, of pitpit (sword grass). The foreshaft is a 4 cm. (between bindings) length of black palm wood, secured to the shaft with a sleeve of woven rattan 1.5 cm. wide. The lanceolate point is a flat piece of bamboo 1.5 cm. wide projecting 18 cm. beyond the binding. The point is bound to the foreshaft by a band of bark cord 11 cm. wide coated with yellow clay.
Rattle depicting a horizontal raven with a straight beak, which rests upon the bird's chest. The wings are at the sides and there are five splayed protruding tail feathers at the bottom. The bird figure is painted blue with red accents delineating the beak and feathers. A long unpainted handle extends from the base of body. There is a horizontal cut through the body and the handle. The two pieces have been nailed together with one nail, which is located in the handle at base of the raven's body. The nail protrudes through the underside of the handle. The hollow body likely contains pebbles, which create noise when shaken.
A comb of yellow wood, roughly rectangular in shape. Nine teeth are running parallel to the longitudinal axis. The long teeth are 14 cm. long and have been shaped to be roughly round in cross-section. At the opposite end, there has been cut an indentation shaped like a flattened v, with each side measuring 6 cm. The remaining solid wood surface has been incised with a pattern of diamonds and transverse lines. The smallest diamonds have been painted red.
Axe (t-shaped, mount Hagen type). Flat head (part b) of black stone projects 20 cm. from the handle, curving towards the working edge, tapering towards handle. Blade balanced by projection of wood extending 16 cm. from the handle, 3 cm. wide, flattened oval in cross-section, with narrow raised ridge around circumference 2 cm. from the end. Projection partially coated with grey clay. Handle (part a) of wood is a flattened oval in cross-section, tapered to the end. Components bound together with binding of heavy rattan. Head is loose.
Axe (t-shaped, mount Hagen type). Flat head of green-grey stone which projects 21 cm. from the handle, 10 cm. wide. Head balanced by projection of black palm wood 25 cm. long, flattened oval in cross-section, 3 cm. wide, with a narrow raised ridge around circumference 5.5 cm. from the end. Handle of black palm wood, and balancing projection coated with a black substance. Three components are bound together with heavy rattan.