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Long club or staff made of dark brown wood. One end has a long narrow spatula shape. The finial is elaborately carved with scrolls and a stylized face. The design is bilaterally symmetrical. The shaft has been cut in half (parts a-b). One piece (part a) has the finial with two pairs of scrolls one above the other on top of the head that has circle in oval in tapering oval eyes that have lines within, wide nostrils that curl inward from either side, a thin narrow ridged nose, and a w-shaped mouth. The other piece (part b) tapers down at one end where it has been cut and flares outward into a rounded spatula-shaped end.
The skirt is brown with nine rows of light coloured flax strips. The strips are unraveled into brown fibres at both ends. The top end is woven into the brown cloth of the skirt. The bottom end is short and becomes a fringe on the bottom of each row of strips. There is a thick braided fibre band across the top of the skirt.
Feather trimmed cape. Cape has a natural beige background and is decorated with coloured designs, black yarn and feathers. There are rows of rectangular designs filled with cross-hatching in either red/black or red/yellow. There are many pieces of black yarn sewn down at one end with the other end hanging loose. The sides and bottom of the cape have a grey-brown feather fringe. The top of the cape has a black multi-strand fringe. Each top corner has a red and white twisted fibre with an ornamental red tuft.
Feather trimmed cape. Woven from off-white commercial wool yarn with a twined plant fibre weft. The ends of small brown and green feathers have been caught in each twist of the weft in a wide border around the edges. The central panel has several brown feathers inserted in the same fashion. Black yarn alternates with off-white yarn at the short ends, and there is an inner border of green and yellow yarn.
Cape composed of various feathers of brown, white, red, and green in a checkered design on an openwork twining weave. The plant fibre twining is carried in pairs with pitch in opposite directions on a weft of dark brown human hair. The feather ends are caught under the rows of plant fibre twining with the tips protruding downward. A heavy three-strand braid of dark brown hair runs across the top. There is a plant fibre cordage tie at each top corner.
Skirt composed of flax fibre dyed dark brown and woven to form a waistband from which emerges a fringe of light yellow flax strips that have been beaten into fibres intermittently and the beaten areas dyed dark brown to form an overall geometric pattern featuring diamond shapes.
Cape composed of flax leaves that have been scraped into fibres, woven together wih a band at the waistband and using regularly spaced single pair twining the top half of the skirt. Each row is overlaid with intermitently scraped leaves, resembling stalks, and the bottom half is comprised mostly of free-moving stalk-like leaves. Several tufts of grey downy feathers are attached intermittently near the waistband.
The end is spatula-shaped and the shaft has an elaborate bi-laterally symmetrical finial carved with two pairs of scrolls one above the other with a frog-like face below. The face has circle in circe eyes at either side with wide nostrils, a thin ridge for the nose, and a w-shaped mouth.
Mutu kaka (bird perch). Roughly carved perch with an angled T-like shape. Carved with a stylized human figure that has large protruding circular eyes and is sitting in a crouched position with a cylindrical protrusion below. The knob is carved into a knot finial.
A stylized, greenstone, human figure pendant (hei tiki). The figure's head is tilting to its right. The circular eyes are outlined with red inlay. Both arms are at its waist; legs are crossed. A black cord is tied through a hole at the middle of the forehead.