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Wooden tool of dual face with decorated handle. Large face has many metal spikes driven into it in a somewhat regular pattern. Reverse face is flat. Handle has small carved decorations on edges, at butt end, centre of handle, and top where handle widens.
Small knife with short metal blade. Blade is flat and curved with interior curve and rounded end sharpened. Blade is inserted into groove in handle bound with coated cord. Curved wooden handle tapering towards blade is rectangular in cross section. Handle has small point at base and it is decorated with a faded woven band tied to the point and back of the handle. Several small braided strands fall below point with threads of tan, red, blue, and brown.
Flat curved metal blade with inward curve and round end sharpened. Blade inserted into handle which has a flattened oval shape in cross section and a groove at end for blade with butt end having small point. Blade bound in place with coated cord. Handle decorated with long woven band in green, yellow, white, and red, tied to point and back of handle with green thread. At handle end, four braided and beaded strings fall forward (beads yellow, red, green, and black).
Conical bowl with engraved triangular pattern at outer rim, two parallel incised lines near join with mouthpiece, and carved extension at bottom. Dark brown exterior with blackened interior and roughly carved to a depth of about two-thirds of bowl length. Mouthpiece joined near centre of side of bowl with join surrounded by cord. Tube of bone slightly curved. The join is not perpendicular to the vertical axis of the bowl.
Cylindrical shaped fibre and wood Tago ? mask with a conical shaped head and a long face that curves lower then the straight across back. The face is painted white with brown and black detailing. The eyes are open and outlined in a brown fish-like shape. The wooden nose projects out while the mouth is made of two boar tusks adhered facing the opposite direction over top of black painted detailing. The sides have rectangular sections painted with diagonal lines; a circular fibre ring hangs on either side with two kinds of shells and feathers. On top of head is a rounded cap of dark fibre with a lighter fibre bushy top knot. Feathered arrow-like stick sits in the middle of the head.
Humanoid, skull shaped, with a prominent forehead and deeply recessed eye sockets. Prominent cheekbones; large red mouth with teeth showing, including four fangs. Perimeter of mask has four holes, through which a rope is threaded
Carved wooden Noh mask of "Hannya"; brown, with gold horns and teeth, and bronze eyes. Black painted hair, with stray strands falling over the face, prominent ears.
A light beige mask (part a) with upraised eyebrows outlined with black diagonal lines and four curvy horizontal lines carved for furrows at the brow. The slightly oval inset eyes bulge out at an angle as the high cheek bone angles to a downward bulge. The open cut out red mouth has upper teeth. The moustache and the goatee are painted with curved black lines. Hair curls over the top of the head along the edges from a set of holes. The beard is done in a similar manner. The pupils of the eyes and the nostrils are also cut out. The bag (part b) is cream coloured with a flower in a hexagon pattern. The bag has two brown ties outlined with green, one on the side and the other on the overlaying flap to tie and close the bag together.
Three dimensional helmet mask with black simulated hair at crown, and a bright yellow painted face in low relief with extensive black painted linear designs that are roughly symmetrical. The eyes and eyebrows are emphasized with black paint, and the mouth is painted red with several thin teeth and a central thicker piece of wood and metal representing the front teeth. There is a blue stone in a metal setting attached to each earlobe.
Tall wooden drum. Smooth cylindrical wood; hollow; tapering from top to base. Light brown in colour; mottled brown hide stretched and tied with fibres to top, secured to pegs extending from side. A raised wide band near the base has six vertical bands of incised triangles; edges of band coloured black. Base flares from narrowest point, edges coloured black. Yellow chalk mark beneath base.