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Toggle carved in the shape of a seal. There are small wooden (?) insets for the eyes and nostrils. A transverse hole is bored through the stomach.
Toggle carved in the shape of a seal. There are small wooden (?) insets for the eyes and nostrils. A transverse hole is bored through the stomach.
Blowgun of natural light brown wood. Wide metal lance-olate blade lashed to muzzle end with worn braided binding and five sets of rattan. Shaft tapers from mouthpiece to muzzle. 1.1 cm. wide hole at each end. Pith at centre is bored with a very small hole (slightly curved) for darts.
Blowgun of natural dark brown wood. Thin metal lance-olate blade lashed to shaft with four sets of rattan binding, the lowest one of which is wrapped around four times while the middle two are wrapped around twice and the top one is wrapped around multiple times. Muzzle is plugged with pandanus leaves. Shaft widens slightly from muzzle to butt end, where it flares to form mouthpiece. Mouthpiece slightly concave; hole at centre (0.9 cm.) edged with red wax. Pith inside hole with small hole bored through length.
The triangular copper arrow point is inserted in a bone shaft and held in place by three copper pins with a wedge of slightly different material that has been added on. The bone shaft is inserted in the wooden one and lashed on with sinew. About 5cm. above this, a v-shaped cut has been made through the shaft and a glue-like substance used to hold it together. There is another cut about 30cm. above it which is held together with sinew lashed around it. The end is notched and there is sinew wrapped around it.
A string of one-hundred-and-ten beads on white cotton cord, one-hundred-and-four of which are spherical orange-brown seeds with a fine mottled surface that have faint striations. String forms a circle, at one side of which, there are three deep-carved beads of brown wood. At the opposite side, there are two identical beads to which are attached a smaller red-brown seed-bead with a spherical orange-brown seed, knotted on with the ends of the cord on which the beads are strung. Tied around the string of beads is braided white cotton cord, on which an amber ? bead is knotted. Cord is 4.4cm. long.
A fan of woven straw in twill weave, shaped like an inverted heart, with a tubular bamboo handle that has a split 10.8 cm. long to allow for the insertion of the fan. The handle is painted (?) with a mottled brown pattern, perforated near the butt end and held in place with a nail. The straw is purple, blue-green, and natural colours, woven in geometric design, finished with a band of braided straw sewn with unspun linen (?) thread around each side.
A fan of woven straw in twill weave, shaped like an inverted heart, with a tubular bamboo handle that has a split 8.5 cm. long to allow for the insertion of the fan which is projecting 13 cm. beyond the body of the fan. The handle is painted (?) with a mottled brown pattern, perforated near the butt end and held in place with a nail. The straw is purple, blue-green, and natural colours, finished with a band of braided straw sewn with unspun linen (?) thread around each side.
Clip of brass, consisting of u-shaped horizontal base to which is soldered (at open end of u) a vertical rectangular metal plaque, 0.5cm. behind which is a square inverted u of heavy wire, the ends of which are inserted into base. Plaque has projecting rim enclosing a picture of silver ? and brass inlaid on brown crosshatched background; picture depicts scene with house, trees, mountains, and boats.
Animal horn instrument. The horn is wrapped with leather at the base and carved with eight grooves at the tip. A hole is bored through to the centre from the outside midway between the leather and the tip.