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Colourful wooden mask with a large yellow crested headdress of plant fibre. The red and yellow tattooed face is triangular-shaped with round shell eyes placed into the hollow eye sockets, the large hollowed mouth has four curving boar-like teeth amongst the smaller ones and a tongue(?) that hangs out to touch a necklace that connects to dangling earrings. The headdress has an interior frame of rattan onto which are tied the leaves and fibres.
One part of a three piece artistic representation of the attributes of the "shark caller". Curved fragments of coconut shell, which are strung onto two strips of rattan bound together into a loop handle, make a rattling sound when shaken.
One part of a three piece artistic representation of the attributes of the "shark caller". The thick wood beater has bands of red, black and white at one end and a thick rope looped through a hole at the narrowed end.
Large rectangular purple and blue batik sarong skirt or textile. The place name "Lifou" is painted on in white near one of the hemmed short ends.
Rectangle of transparent white textile with bright painted decoration. A purple flower with yellow centre hangs above four flower-shaped faces on vine-like orange, yellow, blue and green stalks. The name of the artist is painted in black near one of the hemmed short edges.
Flat, rectangular, light-coloured basket or purse with two long braided grass straps knotted together at the ends. Ends of the vertical strands are left exposed along the bottom in a thick fringe. Shiny strands of blue, yellow and orange are interwoven to create several diagonal bands.
Small rectangle of tapa cloth with smaller rectangular design on one side painted brown, pale red, and black. Central floral motif with four large brown petals and four smaller black ones is set within a large diamond, with identical opposing sides, which is itself set within a circle filled with short black horizontal lines. On either side, a half circle filled with similar motifs is separated two vertical brown leaves.
Fat, disc-like drum made of folded coconut husks bound with braided grass rope. Short rope handle is attached to binding.
Small, heavily glazed dark reddish brown clay pot. The rim flares out slightly from the neck, from which relief coils wind down to join a coil around the belly of the bulbous body with small flat base. Small punches into the clay form wavy lines that fill the upper area.
Necklace made of small yellowish shells strung onto plastic thread. Shell-fringed medallion-like pendant is made of blue, green, and yellow plastic raffia wrapped around a disc of cardboard ? and decorated with a ring of shells around a brown seed.