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Rhythm pounder. Wooden female figure with long curved legs and feet standing on a small domed base. Short arms hang at sides. The figure wears a bracelet on each wrist, an arm ring on each upper arm, one band below the breasts, and two bands at the waist with a cloth hanging(?). There are incised crosshatched designs on the face, shoulders, arms, breasts, quadriceps and pregnant belly. The face extends out from the neck, and hangs down. The face is long and oval shaped with heavy lidded eyes and a serrated mouth with a flat back. Perched on the head is a rodent-like animal with its tail dangling down behind the figure. The shape of the human figure's head mimics that of the rodents. The ears sit high on the head, and are folded back.
Mmwo helmet mask. Carved from a single piece of wood, the mask depicts a female face with a large ornate coiffure. The face is painted white with decorative green and black patterns on the cheeks and brows. There are small rounded red ears with green circular plugs(?), small cutout eyes, and a small grinning red mouth with teeth showing. The top piece is decorated with incised concentric ovoid's and lines on the hair, with a black crest with red cutout zigzag detailing between the arch and the 'hair'. Around the lower rim of the mask are evenly spaced holes.
Carved wooden animal (hyena?) mask. There are two large almond-shaped red eyes on the front of the head, with two small holes drilled through the pupils. Two dark blue-black pointed ears extend up at the top of the head. The creature has a long snout, with white teeth lining the slightly open mouth. The mouth is outlined in red and dark blue-black, with the red extending down on to the teeth at the front. A plain wooden collar extends back from the head, and has holes drilled through it. The mask is painted with dots of red, royal blue and white, and black lines horizontally across the snout.
Tall carved staff, with a kneeling, nude, male figure atop a large pedestal, of almost equal height, at the bottom. The figure holds a long-barreled firearm across the front of his body, and an infant on his back. He has a round head with round protruding features, and a long hairstyle that extends down his behind him and is decorated with calabash(?). On the side of each leg is a knife. The pedestal is somewhat cylindrical at the top, before expanding and tapering three times towards the bottom. The top of the pedestal is wrapped by snakes, and two lizards flank the sides.
Large staff built on a wood armature with an iron blade (part a) and phallic handle (part b) with loose coiled metal (part c). The wooden hilt is studded, wrapped in iron with iron cap. The blade tapers in towards the tip. Towards the top there is a small square cutout with a cross etched on each side. Above and below, the thin area is wrapped in iron. The blade itself is also etched with various designs, however the metal is rusted.
Staff or dance wand. Wooden carving depicting a male figure standing next to a sacrificial ram. The figure holds a double axe in his right hand. His elongated head sits at an angle on his short neck. He has large almond eyes, and six horizontal lines on each cheek. Extending up from his head is a large ornate double axe-shaped headdress that curves down to points on each side. The figures stand on a square platform with carved diagonal lines around the sides and a plain cylindrical handle beneath.
Fertility figure (akuaba) with a flat, disc-shaped head sitting on a long cylindrical neck that slightly curves forward. The lower rounded portion of the face has small horizontal oval eyes with a slit across the middle, two horizontal lines on each cheek, and a small smiling mouth. The raised oval forehead extends down into a long vertical nose and arched brow ridge. The upper edge has a raised arch. The abstract conical arms mimic the shape of the small pointed breasts. The lower half of the body is cylindrical, with an inward bend on the lower back, ending with an anvil-shaped base.
Headdress carved from a single piece of wood. The wood has been stained black, with the carved areas revealing a light brown. The base is dome-shaped, and is carved with rows of zigzags around the exterior. A high arched crest extends from the top, slightly extending beyond the dome, with a cutout upside-down V-shape, leaving a triangle underneath. The crest is decorated with carved geometric designs: repeating V's, lines, triangles, crosshatching and X's.
Model inter-island sailing canoe, with single-hull outrigger. Main hull is carved of a single piece of wood with attached forked end pieces at fore and aft. Hull is panted black with areas near top decoratively left unpainted. Several benches span the interior of the vessel. Detailed wood rigging with intricate, twisted cordage attaches main boat to outrigger float. A woven triangular sail is suspended between two posts, with a third attached by cordage, and can be balanced upright above the main hull. A large plant fibre tassel hangs from the top point. Part b is a 'canoe lee platform' meant to hang off the opposite side from the outrigger. Parts c-d are very small removable benches that fit into spaces at the fore and aft of the main hull. Part e is a rudder; parts f-g are leaf-shaped blade model paddles; part h is a model steering paddle; part i is a smaller model paddle with a leaf-shaped blade (its wood matches that of the platform).
Ancestor figure made of wood with copper and shell inlay. Figure is shown seated on a platform with feet together, and hands on ankles. He wears a tall elaborate headdress with rolled side elements represented with rope-like inlaid copper. The same copper is heavily wrapped around each forearm. The chest, nipples, top of head, front of headdress, and edge of platform are inlaid with small circular copper pieces. He has a very narrow and pointed face, with lips and jaw jutting out, and eyes of inlaid cowrie shells.