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Carved wood drum, cylindrical in shape with a slight tapering to the centre. The middle has a rounded, rectangular shaped handle decorated with zigzag borders carved in relief and cane wrapping. The open end has a jagged tooth edge. Reptile skin is resting on the top of the drum; binding is missing.
A cane shaft carved with dark vertically linear designs on a natural background. The base, near the pointed end, and the end of the shaft, are wrapped in thin cane strips. The point is plain wood which is decorated with a 7.5 cm sleeve of woven brown and yellow grass. The tip of the point has four irregular bone barbs.
A plain round orange-red gourd container. The stopper is rolled bark with a woven grass design around the sides of yellow and brown vertical zig zags.
A small egg-shaped orange-red gourd (part a) decorated with red and white beads with a cowrie shells which hangs loose at each side. Very shallow pricked line design. The stopper (part b) is rolled bark with a woven grass design around the sides of brown and black diagonal lines.
A cylindrical piece with red and yellow grass woven in design of triangles.
A round orange-red gourd container. The stopper has a boar tusk hook handle and a woven geometric patterned grass band, in yellow and brown. Gourd is decorated with a double row of black seeds with a white and red bead fringe. Spiral design on the dark brown wood spatula is carved in low relief and emphasized by lime. The spatula is attached to the gourd by a string. The stopper is attached to the gourd by a string.
Woven, wool, tumpline with braided ends. Central, rectangular strap features geometric triangle designs in pink, yellow, grey and black.
Woven cotton tumpline with geometric design in red, blue, yellow and wine. Design is a horizontal zigzag. The band of the tumpline narrows at each end and warp fibres are braided to create the carrying straps. Knots have been tied at both ends.
A handle which tapers to a simple finial that has three horizontal carved rings underneath. Ten long teeth fan outward radially. Twisted fibre cord is coiled around the middle.
Twelve teeth are woven tightly together with fibre at one end to join the handle in an hour-glass-like shape.