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Dark, black-brown wooden carving; stylized antelope figure with an elongated head, extended horns and highly developed neck design.
Sitting figure representing a person waiting for yam to cook down (bigger than the pot). Figure is sitting on a cylindrical object tapering upward. The knees are bent so that the legs are angled frontward and outward with the yam in between the feet. The elbows are bent so that the arms are resting just above the knees. Clothes are of a lighter wood colour than the body. On a wood base.
Mask of a horned human head, painted black with red, yellow and white geometric designs. Moveable jaw fastened with rubber strips. Long raffia hair attached at back in green, yellow and orange.
A wood rattle that is hollow at either end with three clappers strung with fibre inside each end. The edges are scalloped. There is a face carved on either side, one is that of a man and the other is that of a girl with horizontal pig tails. Light tropical wood.
Fertility figure (akuaba) with a flat, disc-shaped head. High oval forehead, curved upraised brows, oval eyes, a long vertical nose, a pair of horizontal upraised marks on each cheek, and a small mouth at the bottom of the face. Five rings are carved around the neck. The short horizontal rectangular arms are outstretched to the sides with fairly flat breasts below. The lower half of the body is cylindrical and ends with a base at the bottom. Red bead earrings and beaded necklace. String of yellow beads around the base. Polished black.
Simple dark black colour wood carving of a kneeling human figure with a container on its head. The heavily lidded rounded eyes are closed. There is a nose, a mouth, a neck, breasts, a navel, and thick thighs. The arms taper upward so that the hands are holding a flat oval container on its head.
Writing tablet, or prayer board. A flat, rectangular wood piece with an half-circle handle at the top attached by an oval with a cut-out oval hole pierced in the middle. Smooth, worn wood. Arabic script painted on both surfaces in dark brown.
Spoon that has a triangular-shaped piece on the end of the handle. The surface of the handle is decorated with incised geometrical designed. The bowl of the spoon is oval in shape.
Comb with wedge-shape finial handle, and four thick teeth, each that taper to a point. Four dark lines are across the comb horizontally.
Pipe with a mouthpiece tube of wood at one end that then widens to form a cylindrical bowl. Rectangular piece protrudes from pipe tube where it bents into the bowl. Hollow centre. Outside appears to have been oiled.