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Intricately carved iron wood paddle shaped club with a broad blade with incised and hatched designs comprising conjoined triangles and a pair of 'sun-burst' designs. The blade is long, rising slightly to a pointed line running down the centre, slightly concave on the ventral side, convex on the dorsal. An incised pattern of lines creates small squares across the surface of both sides. The shoulder of the blade widens out to blunt edges, with two sunburst patterns carved into the wood, surrounded by the incised squares. A line of triangles delineates the shoulder from both the body of the blade and the neck. The neck narrows into the shaft, which is undecorated. The grip is slightly flared.
Paddle carved out a single piece of wood. The blade is thin and leaf shaped, concave and intricately carved with small incised triangles, zigzags and half circles on both surfaces. The shaft is similarly decorated. The grip flares out from the shaft and is circular with a flat base. It too is intricately carved but with a larger pattern of decorated half circles and incised triangles, as well as leaf shaped protrusions around the base. The bottom of the grip has incised concentric circles with triangles.
Container made of a gourd, rounded and oblong with a relatively wide, round foot. The gourd is covered with basketry, which is itself covered in a thick dark substance. The wooden lid (part b) is carved into 4 creatures, the top being a man with a long head and face, topped by a cylindrical hat. He sits on a horse with a stylized human face. The horse balances on a smaller two legged creature, also with a human-like face, who in turn balances on an even smaller creature with a human-like face, smiling. Beneath the four is the small, round lid and stopper that fits into the mouth of the container. The lid is partly covered by a shiny substance.
Small lime bottle with a small stopper carved into a head. The bottle is made of bone, hollowed on the inside. The mouth of the bottle is oblong in shape, sitting slightly off centre. The bottle widens toward the base. The body is decorated with small incised triangles that make up a repeating figurative motif. Part ‘b’ is the bottle stopper or lid, carved into the shape of a human head and neck. The forehead is long, nose and ears prominent. The eyes are lightly carved circles, and the mouth a carved line. A small tuft if hair is carved into the top of the head. A hole is bored through the neck and filled with a small red bead at back. The surface is shiny.
Small cylindrical container (for tobacco?). The body is tall and narrow, delicately and densely carved in encircling patterns of triangles, swirls, leaves, and geometric and liner designs, in a dark brown colour. Both bottom and top of cylinder are painted a dark reddish brown, with a lacquered shine. The inside is hollow with thin walls. The lid has a round bottom that fits snuggly inside the cylinder, with a top that protrudes beyond the rim and a small round handle at centre top. Small triangles are carved into the outer edge of the lid.
A square fabric bag with a long thin handle. The bag is made of one long narrow piece of cloth folded in half and sewn together along the sides. The top is hemmed with a wide circular stitch. The cloth has vertical stripes of light yellow and dark brown. The handle is thin and sewn to the bag at the top corners. One end of the handle has been allowed to fray into a tassel.
Baby carrier, heavily decorated with beads, shells, claws, etc. all across the front surface. The base is a flat piece of undecorated wood attached to the rounded back piece by fibre strands. The back piece is covered with woven plant fibre in shades of brown, with a large, heavily beaded flap attached at centre, showing animal and plant figures. Across the flap are attached large claws also partially beaded. Large, round, flat shells are attached to the side and top of the back piece with tassels of beads and cowrie shells at the top corners. A beaded band tops the carrier, with small metal decorations hanging from it. The interior of the carrier is covered with red fabric, and two braided fibre straps are attached to the top corners. 19-5-75 is carved into the wooden seat.
Sacred cloth. Long rectangular weft ikat. The large centre portion has a diamond pattern in red, white and grey. At each end are stripes of the same pattern interspersed with panels of bright red and thin lines of white.
Large gold coloured portrait ring. The ring itself is squared, large, with a join line running horizontally through the metal and visible on the interior as well as the exterior. To the front of the ring is welded a face, slightly convex; imitating a Senufo mask. The snout is square, with a slightly open mouth at the bottom. The nose is wide and protrudes. Eyes are protruding circles, closed. The head is rounded, and arching above it are two long thin curving horns that almost touch, each of which has incised horizontal lines on the front.
Wooden pipe with carved face. The pipe is long with a thick round outcropping at midpoint, hollowed. Above, the wood is evenly wrapped for 7 cm with thin coiled copper wire, up to where a smooth round head is carved. The face is flat with a long nose decorated with four incised circles. Two eyes sit to either side of the nose, made of embedded small red beads. Three small holes are bored into the top and sides of the head. An incised ring has been cut in the wood near the bottom end of the pipe.