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A Nomoli sculpture of a human figure carved with a downward pointing triangular face, high brows, large nose, round bulging eyes, and a big protruding mouth. The legs are short, and crouched with the arms, and the hands, wrapped around the knees in front.
Large face mask with pointed, animal ears, a long rectangular nose, and a pointed chin. The base is painted white with red-brown eyes, ears and lines on face; also covered with red-brown spots.
Mask depicting a stylized serene woman's face with a ridged brow, slits for eyes, a nose with a squared end, and protruding lips with metal teeth.
Wood mask with a brass sheet metal covering that has a pattern of repousse dots partly covering the mask. Incised lines on the wood forehead in a wide, horizontal zig zag band. Has horizontal, rectangular cut out eyes and a small mouth. Dangling from the forehead, there are three equally spaced long metal decorations, each with a red tassel. Flat, horizontal, rectangular protrusion on top of the head that has an incised upward pointing triangle in the middle.
A plain, orange-grey stone that has an oblong rectangular shape with both sides rounded while all ends taper at an angle, one end being flat and vertically semi-oval in shape to create an edge at that end which is more flared than the other end which has a similar but smaller effect.
Roughly circular open weave net. Net is lashed to a bent wood frame.
Drum with wood hourglass form. Skin stretched over top and bottom. Strings for tension.
A large object (part a) with a long wood band across two-thirds of the way down a wood arched frame. Above the long wood band, there are fourteen flat rectangular wood pieces lying perpendicular to the long wood band but parallel in association with each other and tied together with skin and string. Below the long wood band, there are ten gourds decreasing in size all in a row. (Gourds and plaques tied and resinated together.) There are two sticks (parts b-c). The largest gourd (part d) is loose.
Spear with wooden shaft covered in bands of dyed red leather at the ends, each with a raised band at either end and a band of grass (?) woven through slits in the leather to form a diagonal pattern, and a centre section covered in off-white skin. The spear has a spade-shaped metal tip with a border of indented semi-circles along the edges of the blade, and incised lines at the base of the blade. The butt end is composed of a conical piece of metal.
Antelope headdress carved from wood. The figure has long curving horns incised with spiraling lines, an elongated and pointed stylized head incised with diagonal lines, triangular indents and holes, the neck is formed by concentric arches joined by diagonal supports with an outer edge of curved and pointed stylized hair, and the tail is short with a blunted tip. The figure stands on a rectangular base.