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Sago pot (a) has a decorative face at the front of the pot with a protruding, snout-like nose, and a rim around the eyes ornamented with a plant fibre tassel at each side. The pot is painted yellow, black, orange, and white. The pot sits on an open weave bark fibre (?) ring (b).
Conical shaped woven basketry figure with two faces depicted. Top face is larger than the lower face, it has a tapered forehead that ends with a fibre, looped handle and is decorated with small feathers. Both faces have oval shaped holes for eyes, an opening for a mouth, a protruding nose and ears along with sennit fibre beards. Each face is painted white with brown and orange detailing. The bottom edge is wrapped with long pieces of fibre.
Large, carved wooden shield, oval in shape painted black and brown with pigment. Carved in relief are two large birds, one at the top facing upwards, the other at the bottom facing downwards. The beaks of the birds curve down into the shield, the eyes are inlaid with cowrie shells the feathers are incised and their wings are spread wide. The top bird has a long tail while the bottom bird’s tail forms in the mouth of a human face. The head is a slightly protruding forehead, a high brow that exaggerates the large eye sockets; the eyes are inlaid with large cowrie shells. The nose is large and pointed with a hollow septum and a piece of fibre twine tied through. The mouth is triangular with bared teeth. The background is painted and incised with a repeating stylized pattern. The underside is hollowed. There is a fibre twine looped tie at the top.
Large yellow-brown circular shell necklace ringed with a beaded fringe. Fringe is made of white, grey, and yellow-brown beads and dark brown, halved nutshells. Two beaded strings extend from the top of the shell.
The tapa cloth is natural in colour with designs painted in reddish-brown and gray. There are eight squares all together; two rows of four. The squares are defined by thick brown lines outlined with gray. All the squares have a diagonal line in the centre. The rest of the square is filled with snake-like lines and small coloured-in shapes. All the lines and shapes are brown and outlined in gray then surrounded by a dotted gray line. The cloth is painted on one side only.
Three long braided fibre strands of shell. The first piece (part a) has eighteen shells. The second piece (part b) has nineteen shells. The third piece (part c) comprises two strands, of which both have twenty shells each.
Large brown wood figure curving into a conical shape with a face that is into the concave crescent. Has large flat ovoid eyes that taper at either outer side. The nostrils are large and flaring. There is an outward pointing multiple triangular fringe around and below the face. The top is three-tiered with truncated downward pointing conical shapes.
Cylindrical handle that flares outward at the bottom with geometric designs on the lower half consisting of the main compressed longitudinal zig zags surrounded by a horizontal row of zig zags at the upper end, separated from the bone or shell inlaid star design along the upper half. There is a bone or shell inlaid star on the bottom end of the handle. Carved melon-shaped head that has many thin protrusions all around and a large boss on the end with a bone or shell inlaid star design.
Carved human figure with fish head, standing on top of a fish; figure attached to stone base; geometric designs decorate figure and stand; cord tied below stand that figure is standing on hangs loose. "15" written on stand.
Wooden wolf headdress, or mask, with a long rounded snout, painted mainly in a black and white design, however the inner eyes, nostrils and lips are painted red and the area surrounding the eyes is painted green. Outside two leather straps are nailed underneath the lower portion of the mouth, acting as hinges. Inside two ropes are strung to adjust and open the lower portion of the mouth. There are two upright ears nailed to the top of the head. A black cloth is nailed to the back of the mask and the extra cloth is tucked inside.