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Heavily painted strip of tapa cloth. Design includes four main panels with geometric designs in black and brown-red paint. The two panel designs alternate. Red-brown border design on each end. Fringe along the long edge.
Small rectangular tapa cloth. Completely covered in geometrical and linear patterns on one side. The repeated designs in black and off-white form concentric rectangles to the central red-brown solid rectangle which contains two star or flower designs.
Round-bottomed container with a flared neck. Decoration is of geometric patterns in bands around shoulder that are raised or incised into the surface.
A large rectangular bark cloth covered with geometric patterns. The patterns are made up of triangles and linear shapes which fit together to decorate the cloth's whole surface. The cloth is coloured in varying shades of reddish brown and browns.
A large, oval bowl, with four legs, carved from a single piece of wood. On one side of the bowl there is a diamond-shaped handle with two small holes carved through it.
A club carved from heavy, dark-brown hardwood with large knobs on the top end, and a zigzag pattern on the handle. Half way along the decorated handle there is a band of braided natural fibre wrapped tightly around it.
Undecorated sperm whale tooth attached to a woven cord, called a tabua. The cord is made of braided plant fibre wrapped with colourful strands of yarn. Two holes are bored through the tooth, one at the tip and one near the top, through which the cord is tied.
Large, wooden kava bowl. Bowl is carved out of a single piece of wood, wide at mouth, narrowing toward a pointed bottom. It stands on four peg-shaped legs. Between two is a carved, downward facing point. The bowl is undecorated.
Long, rectangular tapa cloth densely covered in triangles, scalloped circles, oblongs and other shapes in regular repeating patterns, inside a dark interior linear border. The outer boarder is a regular pattern of small ovals enclosing sets of triangles. The decoration is printed in dark brown and black on a natural background.
Intricately carved iron wood paddle shaped club with a broad blade with incised and hatched designs comprising conjoined triangles and a pair of 'sun-burst' designs. The blade is long, rising slightly to a pointed line running down the centre, slightly concave on the ventral side, convex on the dorsal. An incised pattern of lines creates small squares across the surface of both sides. The shoulder of the blade widens out to blunt edges, with two sunburst patterns carved into the wood, surrounded by the incised squares. A line of triangles delineates the shoulder from both the body of the blade and the neck. The neck narrows into the shaft, which is undecorated. The grip is slightly flared.