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A thin dark brown piece that has a long tongue attached at one end. The piece is slightly rounded with rounded ends. There are two toggles, one at either end.
Hand-woven textile which could have been worn as a skirt. Top and bottom each have wide black bands with thinner off-white, black, light brown and red stripes inside them. The rest of the cloth is densely covered with traditional repeating geometric patterns.
Hand-woven textile with woven traditional designs and two large male figures in orangy-red, black and off-white. Short fringe on both short ends. The long edges have bands of pink and off-white.
Hand-woven textile covered in different patterns on each side, with a fringe at each end. One side of textile has reddish-pink, beige and blue-black bands along top and bottom with a central band of traditional designs in off-white, black and reddish-brown. The other side is covered in a segmented repeating pattern of traditional designs in off-white, black and reddish-brown.
Hand-woven cloth with mirrored traditional patterns on either side of a vertical black band, on a reddish-brown ground. Top and bottom edges have stripes of red, white and black running full horizontal length. Ends have short fringe.
Knife with long blade and highly decorated scabbard. The blade has carved designs near tip and near handle. Bone handle has inter-woven wires wound around lower part and incised designs covering upper part. Tufts of pink, dark brown and off-white hair are attached at protrusions of handle. Blade has blackened throughout all non-sharpened areas. Part b is a wooden scabbard with four large areas of inlaid bone carving covering much of front, attached by bent metal pins. The bone carving closest to top has a fang-like protrusion sticking sharply out. Between the carvings are many tufts of red, black and white hair and two beadwork bands. The sides are held together with grass bands. At back is a thin pod-like sheath, attached by a grass band and by the woven handle protruding through an opening in the sheath. Dark brown pitch(?) is rubbed over the edges and undecorated areas of the front of the scabbard.
Bone-handled knife (part a) with long pointed metal blade. Base of bone handle has thick band of inter-woven wires wound around it, top has incised designs. At top and protrusion of handle there are tufts of hair, some dyed red, and longer strands of dark human hair. Blade has darkened to almost black in some areas. Part b is a wooden scabbard with incised designs in upper section, and at bottom. It has 14 dark brown double bands of grass encircling it. There are two woven circular designs made of light and dark coloured grass, among the bands. On the upper part there are 14 rows of light coloured grass wound around and through the wood underneath the incised design. Attached to the back of the scabbard is a thinner scabbard that appears to be made from a seed pod(?) which is lashed onto the scabbard with string and wire. There is a braided grass handle attached at the back of the scabbard, and a tie of cotton printed fabric tied to the handle. The wood of the scabbard has a red stain(?) over most of its surface and there is another longer tuft of hair attached behind the scabbard.
Ball of blue fibre that merges into reddish brown and then into brown.
Ball of off-white bast fibre rolled around crumpled white paper(?).
Skein of bast fibre in green, reddish-brown and off-white.