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Small cylindrical basket (a) with a flat, fitted lid (b). Wrapped twined rim and flange of cedar bark with warp strand loops. Sides are wrapped twined grass and base is grass and cedar bark plain twining with checker work centre. Geometric design on one side of basket in purple and orange. Two bands of green around bottom. Lid is wrapped twined with green circle in centre surrounded by a blue geometric motif. Two green bands around rim of lid.
Small, cylindrical basket (a) with flat, fitted lid (b); cedar flange attached around the upper rim of basket holds lid in place. Designs around sides of basket: four birds in blue-purple and compound band of blue-purple and yellow around the bottom edge. Lid of basket features concentric rings of blue-purple linear designs.
Oval basket (a) with twined grass rim and cedar bark flange of looped cedar warp strands. Sides are wrapped twined grass; cedar bark and grass base of plain twined weave with checker work centre. Design consists of two light red bands at base of basket; a dark blue, followed by an orange, dark blue and orange bands. The bottom of the basket has one row of purple twining. Lid (b) is wrapped twined with purple and yellow geometric design around red and yellow oval design. Bands around rim of lid are a row each of orange, dark blue, orange and dark blue.
Short, cylindrical woven basket (a) with a flat, fitted lid (b); lid is held in place by a cedar flange attached around the upper rim of the basket. Lid has a central black and yellow circular design with a concentric multicoloured band of linear patterning.; multicoloured band around the sides of the lid. Multicoloured bands of linear patterning around the sides of the basket. Colours: black, yellow, red, green and orange.
Coiled cedar root basketry cradle (part a) with slat foundation and sides. Cradle is rounded at the higher, wider proximal end and is tapered and narrow at the distal end. Fully beaded overcast rim. Remainder of the cradle is plain on the inside and decorated with beading and imbrication on the outside. Rim pattern has mainly canary grass with several repeats of alternating cherry bark and grass. There are seven side coiled rows. First two rows repeat a pattern of closely spaced grass chevrons alternating with wider spaced red or dark brown cherry bark chevrons. Rows three and four repeat above pattern in alternating areas. Rows five and six feature three vertical red cherry bark lines alternating with a darker diamond or x-shaped pattern. Row seven is undecorated. No foot. Plain coiled bottom. Tumpline or carrying strap (part b) with wool wefts and multiple element warps is weft-faced plain weave in a light white-brown and red zigzag pattern. On each end of the strap, there is a machine-stitched, hide backed strip of plaid material which has a shell button on the strap end and a button hole at the other. Each end is buttoned over a strip of hide which is tied on each side of the cradle just below the rim with small strips of hide. There is a small piece of cordage tied to one side.
Short, cylindrical basket (a) with a fitted lid (b); lid has a round knob handle in the centre and is held in place by a cedar bark flange looped with cedar warp strands woven along the upper rim of the basket. Sides are grass and cedar bark, wrapped twined. Bands of black, red, yellow, green and purple linear and geometric patterning around sides and lid. Cedar bark and grass base, plain twined base with central checker work.
Short, cylindrical basket (a) with a flat, fitted lid (b); lid is held in place by a cedar bark flange looped with cedar bark warp strands attached around teh upper rim of the basket. Sides are grass wrapped twined. Cedar bark and grass base, plain twined with checker work centre. Design of purple and yellow striped band around base. Six narrow dark blue bands with double stitching at regular intervals on top and bottom bands around middle. Round lid with five narrow purple and yellow bands around rim. Dark blue sunburst design in centre of lid surrounded by concentric rings of purple, yellow and dark blue.
A bundle originally wrapped in bark (part a) (now fragmented). Contains two river pebbles (parts b-c) rubbed with red ochre, a string of cassowary feathers about 42 cm. long (part d), a length of cotton cord, (part e) on which, there are threaded small fibre balls and at the end of which, there is a 3 cm. long strip of red cloth, one fossil (part f) and two pieces of obsidian (parts g-h).
Round basket with grass twined rim. Cedar bark flange looped with grass warp strands. Sides and base are grass, twined. Design consists of a band of dark blue stitching between a band of light red and green diamonds in wool ? and a band of light red and light green diamonds in silk (?) round basket lid.
Rectangular carrying basket with cedar bark strips and overlaid grass strips attached by plain twining. Coloured band of purple and black at the bottom and two bands of blue-green, orange and purple in the middle. Band of purple and black at the top. Two wide vertical bands of black, purple, and blue-green. Handles are of jute cord.