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Small astragalus bone encircled by a piece of wire a hole bored through the centre.
Kamba made of a calabash sounding chamber with a burned dotted design. The sticks supporting the sounding board are fixed into clay around the rim of the calabash. These sticks include the four legs at an angle with each pair connected by rope which goes through, and attaches a long flat rectangular wood piece with pointed ends. There is a stick (part b) which tapers at one end that has five angled sides.
Vest covered with floral beadwork. The basis of the garment is a trade tweed vest (man's); the front has been covered with black wool fabric, trimmed with blue fabric, embroidered with beads in floral designs and trimmed with small brass buttons; the garment was lined with blue cotton at some later stage and there are no armholes in this lining; also, the armholes in the vest were partially sewn closed.
Small, irregularly shaped wooden piece with rounded corners and two point-like protrusions.
Spear with metal point that flares slightly at the ends and has a ferrule that fits overtop the end of a wooden handle. The butt end of the handle is tapered.
Spear head and shaft (part a) and handle (part b). Spear head is flat and triangular with a long shaft that splits into three ridged strands that have been braided, then the strands reconnect to form the remainder of the shaft which ends in a larger cylindrical segment that fits over the top of the handle. The handle is cylindrical and tapers towards the end.
Ulu type knife. Large, sharply flared metal rounded blade. Blade is attached at its apex via two metal rivets to a short, curved, yellow-brown handle.
Woven cedar bark hat with cloth covering and baleen on exterior. Four kinds of cloth covering: white rayon-like fabric with raised floral imagery, pink-purple floral cotton, a rough ecru-coloured cloth, and white and grey checkered cotton on the top.
A long white cylindrical silk cord that has a form at the centre created into an elaborate knot with five projecting loops. Below the loops, the knots form a cylinder with two side extensions.
A three-dimensional wood puppet of a page boy puppet dressed in a batik skirt of black and brown on white. He is painted with a white face that has black facial features and a red mouth. There is a green downward pointing triangle painted on the chest. There is a black and red shoulder band and wrist band on each arm. Wearing a simple green hat. Body is painted gold. The arms are riveted at the joints with string and have a wood marionnette stick.