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A long rectangular cedar plank with faded Northwest Coast designs imprinted in the surface of the wood; black and red designs are visible over the entire surface. Underside is covered in uniform chisel marks, patches of black discolouration, has rectangular and vertical indentations at one end, and is inscribed at one end with a bright pink encircled number 7.
A long rectangular cedar plank with faded Northwest Coast designs imprinted in the surface of the wood; black and red designs visibly cover the entire surface. Cedar bark stitching and/or the attendant holes at both ends of board. Nail holes irregularly spaced around the outer edges. Underside is covered in uniform chisel marks, with an encircled number ten inscribed in bright pink near one end. Rectangular indentations at both ends on the underside.
Brown wood carving of a boy holding a bird, which has been treed by a leopard. Metal wire around the boy's neck. Leopard, bird, and boy's hat are decorated with black dots. The mouth of leopard is red. Oval, flat base.
Brown wood carving representing an African soldier (bugler?), with vertical tribal scars on his cheeks. He wears a cylindrical hat, belt, and adornments across the chest, and over the shoulders and stands on a rectangular wooden base.
A long rectangular cedar plank with faded Northwest Coast designs imprinted in the surface of the wood; only small portions of the designs are visible. Several longitudinal splits. Wood in the centre and towards one end is rotted with material missing. Many nail holes. Underside is covered in chisel marks and longitudinal gouges.
Cream-coloured triangular paper fan with a wooden handle attached at the base. Fan has a waffle texture, silver border, abstracted imagery of birds flying over grasses, a two-character stamp in the upper left corner, and a cut-out section near the base that reveals the thin wooden ribbing.
Standing wood figures (ibeji). Two male figures, with the one (part a) slightly smaller than the second (part b). Both have black hair indicated by incised line patterns. Each figure has incised tribal marks, four of which are vertical at the top middle of the forehead with another three vertical on the cheeks. Part a has four more, while part b has five more tribal marks vertical along the sides of the face extending at a diagonal angle downward along the middle bottom of the face. More tribal marks radiate from and point downward from the naval. There are also vertical tribal marks on the chest. Extended arms have hands touching thighs. The legs of each figure are very short in relation to body and the feet are fairly large. The first figure (part a) has a necklace of long red, white, and blue cylindrical beads with smaller beads of a similar kind around its waist, right wrist, and both ankles. The second figure (part b) has two strings of tiny brown beads around its waist with anklets of a similar kind to the first figure (part a). Each stands on circular pedestal.
Sitting figure representing a person dying cloth. Figure is sitting on a cylindrical object tapering upward. The knees are bent so that the legs are angled frontward and outward with a basket or a vase in between the feet. The arms are bent outward with the darkened cloth in between the hands. Clothes are of a lighter wood colour than the body. On a wood base.
A wood snake with its head at the side of bird. The snake is decorated with blue, black, and red lines, circles, and dots. The snake body is rounded and curvy with its tail extending outward at the back. The bird is decorated with red and black dots. The bird is leaning downward and forward. On a base.
Small wood mouse decorated with purple and orange stripes and dots. Tail extends outward at the back at a slight downward angle.