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Flat round wrist knife with leather shields. Leather strip covering outside is held on with iron clips. Leather covering on inside part of blade where wrist fits. Held on with copper wire wound around leather.
Rectangular thumb-piano carved from one piece of wood hollowed out and separate sides glued on. Ten metal playing strips (7.7 to 11.6 cm. in length), one is missing at the side, separated by a strip of grass(?) fibres attached through fourteen holes.
Headdress composed of a piece of tapa cloth with rounded corners and decorated with bands of zigzag in red ochre. Woven and wound string with a linear pattern in light grey Job's Tears seeds and segments of black bamboo. The exposed string is rubbed with red, black and yellow pigment (?).
A bark cloth backed beaded panel. The beads are grey and polished and woven with plant fibre string in rows. There is a cross-pattern of black electrical wire pieces. The edges are dyed red, and the top is alternately dyed red, then has grey beads and yellow dye in vertical rows.
Comb with light yellow-brown wood with flat handle and convex sides; flared on bottom corners. Rounded, rusted prongs protrude from one end, all are bent out of shape. One side has a piece of brown string attached.
Stool carved from a single piece of wood. Rectangular seat with slightly upward curving, and flaring ends. Two rounded uneven legs. A piece of leather is wound around each lower leg then twisted around leather stretching piece between both legs. A leather loop fits loosely around twisted joiner.
A pandanus leaf string headband with grey polished plane stem beads. The beads alternate with the string. Light horizontal rows with eight beads are on each vertical strip. The centre has two vertical rows of long cylindrical black beads with two vertical rows of grey beads. Each end has red dye on the string, and the braided ties.
Whisk made from one piece of bamboo. Lower segment is handle. Upper part is cut into fine strands which are separately tied, forming an inner grouping and an outer section. Outer section is splayed outwards with ends curved inwards. Handle has a deep split.
Sickle-shaped sago pounder of stained wood, and cane. The wood handle has an animal figure with striated nostrils carved on one end. The centre is covered by an upside down v-shaped plaited cane fibre matting topped by a small ringed wooden knob. The removable part is solid cane held on by a wrapping of cane fibre.
Large wooden mask. Has a pointed brow with slanted oval eyes that have white rings for irises. Large beaked, inward curving nose which becomes part of the face. The eyes and the mouth areas are painted black with the remainder stained with red ochre. The mouth is very small and has an open u-shape. From ear to ear, there are small notched ridges from around the face. The whole mask is surrounded with grasses and other natural fibres. Eight holes hold grass ring to mask.