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Dark brown wood, round in cross-section, with the shaft tapered to the butt, and carved from a single piece of wood. Conical point is smooth and carved with one longitudinal row of barbs 18-38 cm. from tip: one very long barb; six pyramidal and one elongated pyramidal barb; four pyramidal and one smaller elongated barb. Has six grooves, creating five upraised horizontal bands across the front. Three braided rattan sleeves each 7 cm. wide are 43-45.5 cm. from the tip.
Red- brown wood spear, round cross-section, with the shaft tapered to the butt, and carved of a single piece of wood. Conical point is smooth to 16.5 cm. from the tip with the remaining 67 cm. of the point carved with twenty-three sets of seven barbs all around.
Brown wood slit gong drum made from a solid piece of hardwood carved with an adze. Semi-cylindrical in shape and tapering to ends. Slit opening in top. Hollowed with curving sides. No design or paint on the surface.
Roof plank carved from cedar wood, slightly convex on one side with small lip running the length of one side. The wood has some knot holes and some small holes along the lip at one end. Surface has adze marks on it.
Large rectangular bentwood dish with an undulating rim and painted designs in black and red, on sides and ends. Wide red band around rim is faded. The dish has three kerfed corners and is pegged together with 7 nails at the fourth corner. The base is pegged to the sides with nails.
Helmet-style sea lion(?) headdress, with rounded head and flattened snout. Blue head with red around blue nostrils, in open mouth, scribbled below curved eyebrow bands and in crescent shapes on each side of snout and below mouth. Copper discs in eyes, nailed at centre and outlined in relief oval-shape. Open under mouth. Head is 2 pieces nailed together. Series of holes on top of snout, each side. Five holes (for teeth) on lower portion of mouth. Numerous scrapes on top and sides of head. Chip on mouth.
Dark brown wood spear, round in cross-section, with the shaft tapered to the butt. The tip is coiled with binding of flat plant fibre, now partially broken, covering the point to 48 cm. from the tip. In the binding, there are set broken remains of five sets of four bone barbs at 4, 13, 23, 35, 45 cm. from the tip. Thick plant fibre sleeve is 53.7-55.3 cm. from the tip. Carved with figures that have circular eyes and a large diamond-shaped nose with a wood ball below.
Dark brown wood spear, round in cross-section, with the shaft tapered to the butt. Large elongated pyramidal point is square in cross-section with the wood perforated near the joint with three holes in the shape of flattened ellipses 4 cm. long. Point is joined to the shaft with an end-lap joint, heavily bound, encrusted with dirt, and broken in several places. Several bands of plant fibre are 33.5-55 cm. from the point end. Broken 75 cm. from the butt end and bound with cotton cord.
Double-ended paddle with adze and carving marks overall. Central portion is rounded in cross-section, widening at each end to paddles which are slightly convex on one side, flat on the other. Paddle is bowed.
Skin covered kayak with a single angled cockpit; relatively flat on top and keel; rounded bow tapers to a point and raises slightly from bottom; stern also tapers to a point and is raised from bottom. Series of evenly spaced (where visible) ribs attach to gunwales; ribs are flat on bottom and curve sharply at sides. Three longitudinal keel supports and additional supports around and extending from cockpit. Numerous skins are sewn together, covering kayak; the skin is sewn to a bent wood rim at cockpit. In front of cockpit is a bone support attached to top, side of kayak by a leather thong which passes through two holes on base of the support and through two holes on either side of kayak. There is a rope attached to the back of the cockpit on both sides. The skin covering is pieced by stitching in numerous places.