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Grey-black human figure in standing position. Arms are bent and resting on a protruding branch(?).
Grey-black figure kneeling on flat platform with hands touching the shoulders and body bent forwards. Skirt is attached to the platform. Small bowl is attached to the corner of the platform.
Metal figure of woman wearing a loincloth (pagne) on a platform, bent over a mortar (sowa or starh). Figure is grinding the contents with a pestle in one hand and is holding the edge of the mortar with the other. Head of figure is tilted slightly to the side.
Long narrow decorated tapa (masi) with designs in black and brown. The design is two blocks (pairs) wide and seven long, each pair containing similar flower-like central designs with wide geometric borders around the whole set of blocks. The flowers are of two types, one with oval petals and the other with diamond-shaped petals. One side has a thin striped fringe, the other has a border of lengthwise lines. The ends are serrated. The cloth is made of two pieces attached together; one is thinner than the other.
Long rectangular tapa cloth with geometric designs in brown and black on natural coloured ground. In the centre are squares with two floral motifs in natural on a divided brown and black ground. Around the squares are many bands with triangular and diamond motifs in natural and black. The bottom edge has a thin, black and white fringe. The ends are cut in a serrated pattern.
Long, rectangular white tapa cloth (masi), undecorated with fringed borders.
Dance skirt made from a layer of leaves and plant segments(?) at the waistband, under which is a slightly longer layer of dyed purple bark, and finally a longer layer of grass.
Carrying bag (bilum) woven from light brown fibre with a geometric line and box pattern on the face in dark brown, red, and blue. The top and bottom edges of the bag are curved.
Wooden steering canoe. Single piece of wood. Carved bird forn on top of rounded shaft flattening out to form paddle end. Lance-olate shaped paddle tapers to thin pointed tip. Carving on either side of paddle where shafe melds into paddle head. Signed on paddle head.
Model canoe with a painted black hull, unpainted gunwales, decorative finials at the ends of the upturned tips of the canoe, carved decorative elements with toothed edges on the inside of each end, and shell inlay four-point stars and curvilinear designs.