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The apparatus consists of a light yellow-brown wood piece with a y-shape having two perpendicular sticks at either sides near the pointed end. This piece is connected with the fibre to a darker brown thin cylindrical piece that has a flattened rounded knob at one end and a tear-drop shaped knob at the other end with a conical base.
Skirt composed of grass strands dyed in vertical bands of orange, red and dark brown and knotted to the waistband. Half of the skirt is shorter than the remaining half and has a curved edge.
Skirt made of strands of grass that hang from two grass ropes at the waist and have been twisted and knotted with the long ends left loose. The skirt is dyed with two shades of brown arranged in alternating rows.
Three strands each composed of two sections of dark brown seeds and a middle section of two long cylindrical sections of bone with four or five large seeds and a bone ring separating them.
One crab claw-like sail and two cabins. The deck is constructed on two canoe-shaped pontoons. Linear geometric designs in red and black consisting of lines, triangles, and dots.
A simple woven rattan handle to secure long strips of grass.
Bag with a trapezoidal shape and two flat woven handles. The bag is woven with dark brown bark and off-white palm leaf to form a v-shape composed of dotted lines, and geometric patterns. Several fringes along top edge.
Bag woven from alternating grey-brown, red-brown and natural grass and bark in a geometric design. Two bands of woven grass(?) are attached at the top edges as handles, and there is a braided grass string threaded through loops near the top edge of the bag with short lengths of red-brown bark at either side of the bag.
Woven fibre bag (bilum) with a wide rounded, flared bottom that tapers to a narrow top. On either side of the narrow opening is a flat handle woven. The covering the surface is three leaf-like flaps outlined and decorated with bands of cowrie shells. The surface has wide bands of cowrie shells with alternating stripes of red and black on a natural ground.
Two pieces (parts a-b): the disc and the foot. The discs are dished. The first piece (part a) has a swirl-like design. The second piece (part b) has a design consisting of four equally spaced grooved oval shapes surrounded by a double circular outline.