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The end of the dark brown, wooden handle has a large, leaf-like pattern to one side. The wooden handle is fitted into a scroll designed brass band. The blade is thin where it meets the handle, is bent and redirected upwards, and gets thicker towards the point.
Rectangular box with lid that can be locked; there are bail-type handles on both ends; black characters are on inside bottom and underside of lid. Label on bottom says made in Japan; label on top of lid says 45; tag on one handle has two characters and 45.
Rectangular wooden box (part a) with iron rivets. Half of box's top is a removable lid (part b); lid is fastened at one end with a simply ornamented lock.
Rectangular box with separate lid that constitutes one half of the top and is flush with the overall dimensions; a lock and a bail type handle are attached at lid end of box; a key is attached with string. There is some script in black underneath.
Lantern consisting of black lacquered woven case with a collapsible paper lantern attached inside. The lantern is composed of light brownish-yellow oiled paper with an attached bamboo strip coil support and is decorated with a geometric design of six black squares. On the interior bottom is a metal candle support with a metal spike at the centre, and there is a metal handle at the top.
Black metal fork-shaped spear point with five prongs, three of which are barbed.
A detachable metal harpoon head that has a hollow shank with only one side having a barb. There is a hole pierced through near the middle of the stem.
Thumb piano constructed from a wooden plank base with five narrower, and seven thicker metal prongs raised up from the plank on a piece of wood and bent metal, and secured with a metal bar and wire. Each prong has a ball of resin or wax stuck underneath the end. There is a rattle composed of a metal bar with four metal cylinders attached to the edge opposite the end with the metal prongs. A skin handle is attached at the prong end through two holes in the wooden plank. A ridged geometric design, with an overall rectangular shape composed of four triangles, has been carved into the top face.
Dagger, or knife and sheath (part b). Iron blade with a dark wooden handle. The sheath is composed of hippopotamus and crocodile skin and has a stamped geometric design as well as braided trim, and a loop handle attached at the top.
Spear with wooden shaft covered in bands of dyed red leather at the ends, each with a raised band at either end and a band of grass (?) woven through slits in the leather to form a diagonal pattern, and a centre section covered in off-white skin. The spear has a spade-shaped metal tip with a border of indented semi-circles along the edges of the blade, and incised lines at the base of the blade. The butt end is composed of a conical piece of metal.