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Three bent figures in a row, each wearing a sarong and holding a hoe with both hands. The figure at the centre is wearing a sarong with a bottom border of a zigzag line with two horizontal bands, the figure to the central figure's right is wearing a sarong with horizontal lines, and the figure to the central figure's left is wearing a sarong decorated with dotted horizontal lines. The figures are standing on a base that is rectangular with the shortest sides slightly curved, is divided in three by two lines, and is decorated with triangles on the side and front edges. The designs and areas with a dark brown finish have been burnt to produce the dark brown colour.
Short stool carved from a single piece of wood. Circular seat and four triangular legs pierced in a long elbow hole. Holes burned over surface, forming a linking cross pattern on legs and large cross in circle on seat. Black and red paint on bottom of seat and on legs.
Mask with a broad dark coloured forehead, a light coloured band around the top of the head decorated with dark lines, arched lines outlining the eyebrows, oval-shaped cut-out eyes outlined with large light space and thin dark lines, an angular nose, an oval-shaped mouth with jagged teeth, and a protruding band underneath the chin decorated with dark lines. Inscription on back reads: "A tourist fake."
A wood piece that has a flat rounded blade and a cylindrical handle which tapers to a point at the other end. Simple burned decoration on the blade and the handle.
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.
A closing fan made of twenty-eight smooth flat ribs of split bamboo narrowing where they are attached to the fan of yellow brown oiled paper. A curvilinear design is burned on the base of each side of each rib. End pieces of the fan are strips of bamboo with the nodes prominent and a design burned on of dots and curvilinear motifs. Handle of the fan is of black wood fastened by a metal rivet with a small ring on one side.
Cylindrical ring carved from wood that sits on one flattened side, and the edges are serrated with three segments of the edge burnt to a dark brown finish. Around the centre of the ring are two raised, ridged bands with a herringbone pattern that are accented with two bands of dark brown burnt wood.
White painted and burned face mask. Two horns protrude upward with slit cut out eyes below at a high point on the face, along which there is a large curved nose and raised dimpled cheeks. Mouth is carved grinning.
White painted and burned face mask with broad-toothed smile and a protruding nose. Upraised brows with small slit eyes cut out very high on the face. Cord string at back for hanging.
Large mask of a dark pink male face. Black eyebrows carved with diagonal grooves. Triangular eyes cut out. Thick nose and big thick diagonally v-grooved black moustache. Heavy forehead ridge and protruding chin. Plastic wire for hanging at back.