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Three sided bowl with rounded corners. Wide straight red-brown rim with two indented horizontal lines around circumference. Inner rim is beveled and flush joint shows faintly at outside. Brown bowl tapers to flat bottom. Centre bottom has small rectangular hole with six faint incised lines radiating out. Inner surface is rounded with a black rounded triangular insect-like creature painted at centre. Creature has a series of tiny vertical lines out from tail, bent legs on either side of head, tiny fin-like appendages above each leg, circular eyes and nostrils, and wide curved mouth with tiny lines indicating teeth. Three pronged line extensions from body.
Carving has blue and green cone-like top with six horizontal ridges and ten vertical cuts in which red yarn has been applied with beeswax and ends join to form tassel at top of cone. Pink yarn wrapped around base of cone, with yarn knotted on either side of cone and having the ends hanging free. Red yarn wrapped beneath pink, knotted on either side of cone with ends hanging free. Below cone are five circular layers with small circular holes burnt around edges and between each layer. Four circular decorations on each layer consist of beads pressed into beeswax. Two pink and two yellow pompoms between third and fourth layers. Rounded base has five beaded decorations and a zigzag line of burnt circles.
Roughly shaped stylized humanoid figure with inverted triangular head. Two upright arm-like extensions on either side of head. Body has two stacked forms with sharp v's to either side. Wide rectangular-like base. Small burnt circular holes outline all body and facial features. All beaded decorations are pressed into beeswax. At front top of head are thirteen carved notches. The deeply carved almond shaped eyes have black, red, and yellow bead pupils. The indented mouth has a double row of red beads. There is a double row of vertical red beads at base of arm on left, while red, and black beads at base of arm on right. Black and red bead cross at centre front of first body form. Circular beaded decorations: four on top of head, a row of four down each side and centre back, three at front of second body form, one at centre front base. Multiple strands of pink yarn are looped around neck, knotted at front and back, as ends hang free.
Hollowed gourd bowl covered on exterior with beeswax and inlaid with glass beads in a design consisting of white deer with cross above centre of body, red and black undulating line at centre of body, outlined in black. Two red and yellow figures both with arms outstretched, one is seated on a white and black chair the other is standing. Two u-shaped bases have double crosses above with blue ground, and yellow rim. Black divided circle on base has green and white triangular shaped wedges. Bowl contains three sticks inserted into beeswax. Two sticks are painted in blue and red bands, notched at upper end. Centre stick wrapped in red, blue, and pink yarn. Diminutive representations attached to each stick with braided or wrapped yarn, stick on left has a guitar, two bows, god's eye, paper sandal. Centre stick has drum, bow, arrow, shield, and feathers. Stick on right has violin, bow, god's eye and a paper sandal.
Two part arrow. First part is bamboo with a notch at one end, painted red band and line design, three feathers bound at top and bottom over painted design. Second part is wood, fitted and bound with fibre to bamboo, narrows to blunt point.
Vertically rectangular wood piece. Eagle bird design carved in the centre. Eagle has a wide, red face that is outlined by dark blue with circular abalone shell inlaid eyes surrounded by a tapering red oval surrounded by a white ovoid outlined by dark blue. Downward curved, white beak is has a lower red lip with six oblong abalone shell inlaid teeth. The red body has a vertical row of four vertically, rectangular abalone shell inlaid pieces. The outward pointing, white claws have four downward pointing, red digits. The red side wings have downward pointing, dark blue outlined, white triangular feathers. The trapezoid-shaped tail is white. Six horizontal rows of upward pointing, dark blue outlined, white triangular shapes are at either side. The background is red. Rectangular abalone shell inlaid pieces are around the border with six at either side and seven along the top. The outer edges are white with a narrow vertical wood strip painted white attached at either side by leather skin.
Oval, human face mask with sculpture features, raised eyebrows curving into realistic nose with nostril holes, high cheeks, almond shaped eyes holes in depressions, and mouth slit in slightly raised area. Hole at top centre to back. Two holes on each side about 6 cm. apart with wire braided wire passing along sides, across back, connected and twisted together at centre. White numbers on back read '26746'.
An arrow shaft, 88 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). Light brown near the fore-shaft is darkening to black at the butt due to a black coating. The fore-shaft of black palm wood, 18 cm. long, is inserted into the shaft and bound with a woven sleeve of rattan 1.5 cm. wide. The fore-shaft is incised with dots and zigzag lines. The long point is made of solid bone, protruding 6.5 cm. beyond the fore-shaft and bound to it with a band of bark cord 10 cm. wide and a sleeve of woven rattan 1.5 cm. wide coated with red and yellow ? ochre.
Brown wood stick of a very elongated, thin paddle shape that is a flattened oval in cross-section. One end is pointed while the flatter end is rounded.
Two part arrow. First part is bamboo with notch at one end, two red and one blue painted line, bordered at top and bottom by three blue bands, three feathers bound at top and bottom with thread are over painted design. Second is wood, fitted and bound with thread to bamboo, narrows to blunt point.