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Rectangular carrying bag with bottom of cedar slats and crisscross grass. Plain twined weaving around base and wrapped twining around body. Patten is of a wide, encircling purple band with oblique yellow and plain sections around the middle. Two narrower purple bands with yellow oblique sections around top and bottom. Rim is partly green with red cotton thread near centre.
Rectangular cloth consisting of eleven narrow strips 12 cm wide and sewn selvedge to selvedge. Stripes run the length of each strip in the same pattern. Starting at one side is a light brown-white selvedge; narrow white stripe; broad light brown-white band; narrow white; broad dark brown; narrow white; broad brown; narrow white; broad dark brown; narrow white and broad light brown-white selvedge. Creased along width at each end. Unwoven fringe at both ends is 1 cm wide. Small yellow stains overall.
Rectangular cloth of twelve narrow strips sewn together. Each strip has a band of parallel black stripes and three parallel stitch width lines of brown above. Seams are above the brown stripes.
Official emergency hat with flat round brim attached to crown shaped like truncated cone. Inside of hat is made of paper painted black, with a woven texture showing. Outside of hat is covered with fine red silk, with edges trimmed with red paper, and with vertical strips of red paper on each side of the crown, at the bottom of which are small red tubes. On the underside of the brim from the tubes and strips are attached two red silk ribbons that are tied together. Crown of hat projects slightly below its point of insertion into the brim. Brim is somewhat wavy and has black and brown stains.
A bundle wrapped in red trade cloth (part a), bound with rattan (part b), and containing a fossilized animal (reptile?) mandible (part c) covered with red ochre and wrapped with matted marsupial fur.
Large round openwork basket with foot, consisting of 5 rows of wide slats covered with cedar strips, alternating with 4 rows of loop work. Bottom is watch-spring coiled with bifurcated stitches. Beading at top edge in dark cherry bark. Beading on wrapped slats were checkerboard squares in dark or red cherry bark, but have mostly come off. Most of the loop work around the rim is missing. Foot is beaded with two rows of dark cherry bark with wide grass in between.
A finely woven off-white circular wool hat with the machine sewn top sewn to a long rolled tube. The tubular section has decorative seams consisting of circular rings. Top of hat is lined with white cotton.
An arrow shaft, 91 cm. long, of pitpit (sword grass). The foreshaft is a 4 cm. (between bindings) length of black palm wood, secured to the shaft with a sleeve of woven rattan 1.5 cm. wide. The lanceolate point is a flat piece of bamboo 1.5 cm. wide projecting 18 cm. beyond the binding. The point is bound to the foreshaft by a band of bark cord 11 cm. wide coated with yellow clay.
Orange, cotton bag made of two rectangular pieces of hand woven cloth machine sewn together at the bottom with a fringe. Wide band is sewn on the sides and extends to form the strap. Decorated with hand embroidered stylized birds, butterfly, elephant and flower like forms is interspersed with various geometric designs of which the diamond shape is most prevalent on this bag; designs in light orange, white, green and red. Some of the design has been woven into the fabric.
A flat bag of twill-weave light brown grass, woven in one piece, rectangular in shape, and open at one narrow end. The edge of the opening is finished by turning ends of grass back and weaving in. There is a double row within 1.5 cm. of the open edge. The handle of braided root fibre (?), 51 cm. long and tied at mid-length, is affixed to the opposite corners of the bag by threading through the weave.