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Necklace with a horn container. Lower portion is rough with large chips and upper portion is smooth, lighter yellow with a small, dirty piece of cloth for a plug. Large loop of copper attaches chain to horn; chain is also copper.
Oval bowl carved from a single piece of yellow-brown wood of uneven thickness. Sanded surface has been oiled. Thicker and slightly pointed at the ends. Small flat bottom with a piece of paper stuck to it.
Elder's stool carved from single piece of light coloured wood. Three legs each with flaring bases. Seat is round and concave. Well finished.
Stool carved from single piece of wood; seat is oblong with pointed ends, and is widest near the ends and narrower at the center with a slight dip towards the centre. The base is a hollowed-out, conical shape, which then extends into a relatively flat stem with slightly curved sides. Several copper staples overall. A curved, copper handle made of a thick wire with ends inserted through two holes in the stem and bent back to secure the handle. Slightly polished finish. Part a: base and part of seat. Part b: seat fragment.
One carved piece of wood contoured to fit the face. Narrow eye slits are blackened on interior. Two drilled holes on one side, five on the other. Of the five, four are plugged with sinew. Top corner is broken off.
Weaving beater. Red-brown beater, shaped like a dagger blade, slightly asymmetrical, and flattened oval in cross-section.
Long strand of ostrich eggshell beads of uniform size, interspersed with short pieces of brown reed. Strung on sinew and tied at the end with a strip of brown leather, which also ties the strand together in eight loops.
Set of twenty-one uniform, polished sticks shaped like cigarillos (a-u). Small, rectangular piece of inlaid abalone shell on one (a); one is split but secured with nail (b). Faint bands in black and red drawn around the centre of many.
Set of fifty-five uniform polished sticks (a-ccc); cylindrical and light tan in colour. All have three incised lines in centre. Some have small burnt markings or designs.
Parts (b-d) of a loom. Part b: brown leather, rectangular shaped backstrap, decorated with a stamped pattern consisting of two rectangles edged with repeated lines of triangles with three flower-like images in the middle. In the centre is a circle with a landscape motif inside. Both edges are looped and have braided fibre twine attached. Part c: twisted fibre robe in blue, purple and white with tufts on either ends. One end breaks into two strands with loops on each. Part c: carved wood pick consisting of a green bird with a red stomach and long tail feathers at the top; the end tapers into a point.