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Ifa divination tray. Round wooden tray with encircling border of a carved face with an intertwining circular pattern on either side, interspersed with a geometric design. One side and the centre are worn. Underside has a plain border with indented centre and finger hole.
Head. Yellowish white limestone. Male with idealized features, large eyes, long thin nose, small mouth. Face is carved in flat planes. On head, three stylized braids above which is a laurel wreath. Back is flat and back of head is slightly worked to indicate hair. Broken from a larger figure.
Yellow-brown wood whistle that is circular in cross section and comes to a tapering end and is bound in two places with brown twine, one near the wider end and one near the middle. While the wider end is solid, there is a hollow through the tapering end where there is a taper cut semi-oval hole nearby on one side. Mouth piece is wedge shaped to accommodate a composite whistle.
A cylinder tapering from an open mouth to a closed end with a hole which apparently is for a tether. The blowhole at the top is surrounded by four-prong star-like incised lines. Within the longest arm are six notches. Carved lines encircle the mouth rim and the opposite tip. Stained black but mostly worn to brown.
Hollowed log with a carved face projecting at each end. The snout of the smaller animal head is broken off; the longer head is human upturned, flat and smiling. The hollow is uneven, bulging on one side, and split at the top.
A spoon made of coconut nutshell with a steep curve from the handle to the front, but with a fairly shallow bowl. The handle is short with a prong that has a raised three-armed decoration made from the natural features of the coconut nutshell.
Flute consisting of a large piece of loose skinned bamboo, bound with two sets of crisscrossing fibre and three cassowary feather rings at the top, middle and bottom. The stop of the flute is a carved kneeling man facing outwards with a crested bird standing behind him with its claws ? resting on the man’s head. The bird has a large extending crest on its head, long groups of feathers hanging from the side of its head and carved stylized detailing on its body. Both the bird and the man have cowrie eyes; the bird also has four tassels down the back. The figures and the fibre ties on the bamboo are covered in a black pigment.
Two standing figures representing people facing each other across a pump. One man is bareheaded, wearing a loose short-sleeved shirt and knee-length trousers with his right hand on the pump spout. The second figure is wearing a one piece short-sleeved garment and a wide brimmed hat with the right hand on the pump handle and the left hand on the shaft of the pump. A bucket stands at each end of the base of the pump, one under the spout, and one under the handle. All clothing is light yellow-brown. The heads and limbs are dark brown. Pump handle, spout, and pails are light red-brown. Base is brown wood.
Two figures representing people facing each other. One is wearing a short-sleeved shirt and knee-length trousers, sitting on the ground leaning against a three-pointed backrest. The second figure, in identical dress, is bending from the waist, and holding a pot with both hands. At the side of the sitting figure lies a blue object, possibly a knife. Heads, limbs, and backrest are dark brown. Clothing and pot are light yellow-brown. The base is brown wood.
Figure representing a man cutting a tree with a machete-like long bladed knife in his right hand. He is wearing knee-length trousers, a short-sleeved shirt, and soft pointed hat. Tree, arms, legs, and head of man are dark brown. Clothes and knife are light yellow-brown. Variegated shavings at base of tree. Base of carving is light brown wood.