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The head is a black stone disc between woven bands of plant fibre (?) or bark (?), and black, brown, dark red, and green feathers. The handle is plain and tapered.
Carved wooden ancestral board in an oval shape with triangular points at the top and bottom. The surface has a human figure carved in relief with a circular white head, a black forehead and eyes along with red mouth and outline around the eyes. The body is stylized with lines and x-shapes in white. The ends and the outer edge are black detailed with a repeating triangular-like white pattern. The back has ‘Amai Papua’ written in black felt.
Oval human face painted with designs in ochre and grey and white paint. Tusks in nose. Bamboo hanger at top. Evenly spaced holes at rim around cheeks and lower jaw. Hole at center of one tusk, on left side.
Gable mask with an oval, carved face painted in red, black and white with protruding eyes and ears, a protruding tongue, and a series of holes with twined sennit fibre fed through and knotted. A wedge of wood is attached to the top on the reverse, and two wooden loops are carved out of the wood at the bottom reverse.
Rawhide wrapped around stone ball and wooden shaft with human hair tassel and blue and white beads.
Incised trade brass head with wooden shaft that has brass studs on the handle. Attached at the bottom of the handle, there is a flat triangular cloth with a beadwork design of yellow and black arrow-like-shapes on a light blue background and having a twisted coil cloth fringe. There is also a string of coiled yellow, black, and light blue beads in a pattern of alternating rectangles.
A long hollow cylindrical wood stick piece with a metal ax-like-shaped piece at one end which has an open hollow cylindrical part.
A hollow red pipe with a T-shape (part a), of which one end is shorter and closed and the other end is a long, open, and rectangular. Part b is a hollow wooden stick.
Long, horizontal pipe with a t-shaped bowl carved from red stone and a stem covered with turquoise, red and yellow bands of beading.
Cylindrical shaped ornament made of coiled wood or bark covered with red, green and yellow feathers fastened together. The yellow feathers are long and narrow perroquet (parakeet) tail feathers. Attached to the end are five long pieces of twisted fibre twine.