Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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Large wooden spoon with carved designs all the way around the handle; the top four cm of the tip and the bowl are uncarved.
Rattle made of six cones of tin attached to a wooden handle. The cones consist of different sizes, three wide and long, and three shorter and smaller in diameter. All are crimped at the handle, where they fit into a metal ring that joins them to the handle. Each cone widens toward the base. The larger three contain a wire hung with a metal nut as a clapper. The cones are decorated with circle and line motifs pressed into the tin. The wooden handle has an engraved line that spirals from end to end.
Rattle made of strands of plant material curved to form a handle, and then widening to form the bodies of two joined rattles. The same material is wrapped around the handle, and around itself at the base of the handle in order to hold the twin rattles firmly together. Intertwined between the strands on the rattles are strips of leaf (coconut?) in an open weave. Large round pieces of gourd form the base of each rattle. Inside are small white seeds that make a sharp noise when the object is shaken.
Necklace of cowrie shells with a gourd pendant. A double line of cowrie shells makes up the majority of the chain, strung on plastic fishing line. At the bottom are three pairs of shells interspersed with three strands of plastic beads in black red and white. A small brown gourd hangs below this, covered in a loosely woven covering of raffia, with a raffia tassel hanging below. The gourd is embellished with three evenly spaced decorations of a cowrie shell surrounded by a circle of beads.
Staff made of thick, stiff strands of dried grass, wrapped with raffia in an open weave to make up the handle. From the bottom protrudes a tuft of raffia, wrapped with a band of woven white fabric and grey plastic twine. Two circular patches of raffia are attached close to the base, topped with cowrie shells arranged in a flower motif. The top of the staff is covered in unbleached cotton, edged with two kinds of braided synthetic banding. Attached to the cotton are three small gourd rattles, also wrapped in open raffia weaving, each with a single cowrie shell and plastic bead decoration. Three lines of cowrie shells are glued to the cotton between the gourds.
Large photographic print. A young boy stands in the centre of the photo. His smiling face and lower legs are in colour, while his torso and upper legs are surrounded by a rectangular black & white, X-ray type image overlaying the colour picture. Inside the rectangle he is wearing a neat suit coat, pants and tie, hands joined behind his back. Seen in the background are a hardwood floor, a washroom, and a frosted window. On the sides of the photo are images of cellulose film notches.
Costume skirt made of long, plain strips of raffia hanging from a thin cotton waistband.
Filá headdress. Gourd headpiece, with hanging raffia cover. The half gourd is decorated with lace around its rim and across to the top centre where it wraps around a protruding lip. On the body between the strips of lace are woven circles of raffia beneath flower shaped arrangements of cowrie shells and plastic beads. Out the top protrusion emerges a stiff tuft of raffia held together by a wrap of grey plastic twine. From the lower rim of the gourd hang thick, metre long strands of raffia, entirely encircling the headdress so that the fringe hangs down evenly over the wearer’s front and back.
Shaman’s medicine box made of two pieces of folded bark, one making up the outer back and sides, held together with stitched plant fibre at top and bottom. The box is a long rectangle with rounded edges, slightly wider at top. Three bands of light red woven root, moveable and of differing lengths, are wrapped around the box to hold it closed. Two short wrapped bands of root(?) are attached to flaps at both top and bottom and hold two long handles made of strips of plant fibre.
Shaman’s medicine box made of two pieces of folded bark, held together with a type of stitched plant fibre at the top and bottom. The box is a long rectangle with rounded edges, slightly wider at top. Two bands of woven root, one light in colour, the other dark, are wrapped around the box at the middle and top. Two short wrapped bands of root are attached to flaps at both top and bottom and hold a long handle made of a strip of plant fibre.