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An arrow shaft, 82 cm. long, made of pitpit (sword grass). The shaft is light brown with black coating. The foreshaft of black palm wood, 41 cm. long, has an incised design. At the point of insertion into the shaft, there is a sleeve of woven split rattan 1 cm. wide. The foreshaft is inserted into a hollow lanceolate bone point 10 cm. long with a sleeve of woven split rattan 1.5 cm. wide at the point of insertion. The point is rubbed with grey clay. The foreshaft is rubbed with grey clay and red ochre.
An arrow shaft made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). The shaft is light brown with a black coating. The fore-shaft of black palm wood is round in cross section and narrower at the point end. This has been incised with deep longitudinal and short transverse lines. The insertion into the shaft has been secured with a sleeve of woven rattan. Sleeves and fore-shaft are coated with red ochre.
A hairpin consisting of a flared tube of silver tapering to a long slender point with a translucent pink stone (rose quartz) inserted into the open end. The stone has an elongated double-lobed globular shape with a simple curvilinear carving. The pin is indented into three lobes at about one-third of the distance from the stone.
Part of a seal drag handle in the shape of a seal's head; back slopes to flat end. Longitudinal hole drilled into head from back. Three holes through bottom to longitudinal hole (the one below the chin is at an angle). Inlaid eyes, holes for nostrils on flattened snout, straight line below indicates mouth. Mottled brown.
A container made from a dark brown gourd shaped like a sphere, from which the top one-third has been cut away. A hole is bored near the rim for insertion of a cord of braided root(?) 21.5 cm. long. The main design consists of an incised band around the rim consisting of a single line with a herringbone pattern.
Degraded hook in isosceles triangle shape; one edge is flat; two opposite edges meet at a wide angle. Four holes along shortest side. Incised band of two lines with short lines at right angles run across hook on both sides at widest point. One side is relatively smooth and rounded, opposite convex side is rough. Thickly coated in varnish or resin.
Part of a composite line drag handle in the shape of a mitten with the thumb pulled in parallel to rounded and inwardly curving finger section. Round hole runs through from front to back at the centre base of the mitten. A semi-circular hole runs from the bottom surface connecting with round hole. Two smaller holes on either side of semi-circle. Parallel lines run around the circumference of the bottom of the mitten with a series of small perpendicular lines extending up from both lines. On the centre of the convex outer surface is a raised vertical band with parallel dotted lines on either side.
An arrow shaft, 86.5 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). The shaft is red-brown with black coating. The fore-shaft of the black palm wood is 13 cm. long between the bindings. At the joint, with the shaft, there is a sleeve of woven rattan 1 cm. wide. The foreshaft is bound to the point coated with grey clay. The long bone point protrudes 14 cm. beyond the binding.
An arrow shaft, 62.5 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit or sword grass. The shaft has black coating. The round foreshaft of black palm wood is 25.5 cm.long between bindings. Bound at the insertion into the shaft, there is a sleeve of woven rattan 2 cm. wide and to the point with a band of bark cord 5.5 cm. wide. The palm wood is bound with a narrow sleeve of woven rattan less than 1 cm. wide. The foreshaft is also bound with a narrow sleeve of woven rattan. The bark cord band is coated with grey clay. The point is a solid round bone projection 12.5 cm. beyond the binding and coated with a black substance.
A wood ladle with a double curve. The bowl is more curved than the handle. Oval bowl is hollowed out. End of bowl is slightly squared. Handle is flat on the bowl side while the back surface is rounded. Top of the handle is squared off. An incised line divides the bowl from the handle.