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Spoon with a bird-like figure for the handle. Head and beak curve and attached to the belly. Short wing-like shapes protrude from the side of the body. Bowl of spoon is round and shallow. Fibre cording attached to neck of figure on handle.
Heddle pulley in the shape of an animal's head, torso, and front legs. Holes at the bottom of the front legs. Hole through head.
Bird-shaped figure in the formation of a v-shape. No eyes, but has a beak with a hole through the side of the neck. The belly projects outward with a ridge along the middle. A small tail is at the back. The legs form a v-shape and each have a hole through them. On a base (part b).
A brown wood mask of two faces in a side-by-side mirror image and crowned by a hornbill(?) pecking in between them. The eyes are cut out. A possible staining technique could have been used to create darker effects.
Plain strips of cloth (six) sewn together and painted with a pattern of seven birds and a central human-like figure, in dark brown on a beige background. There are three birds at each side, and one underneath the figure. The cloth has selvedges and raw ends.
Human face mask with a crescent superstructure. Oval cut out eyes are narrow. Eyebrows are connected to the long, thin, deep nose. Open mouth has long upper teeth. Wide ears with smaller, upper ear-like features above. Scarification marks on the cheeks, the forehead, and the sides of the face. Four triangular protrusions run along the middle of the forehead. Crescent superstructure is supported by a prong at either side with four inner prongs.
Plain surface, brown wood helmet mask in the mixed form of an antelope and hyena. Has horns. Rounded upper face and flat lower face with a nose. Open mouth with two lower teeth on one side and three lower teeth on the other side.
Mask in a black colour. Ram horns protruding from the jaw. Wings at the sides of the face. Surmounted by a hornbill(?) crest.
Door panel made from one piece of wood carved with highly stylized birds, crocodiles, antelope and snakes arranged above and below a crocodile figure at the centre. A cylindrical element protrudes both at the top and bottom on one side. The wood has been coated with a wax-like substance to create a dark brown finish.
Flat, rectangular piece of wood with various animals and two mask-faces carved on one side in relief.