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Figure representing a man wearing a sleeveless shirt and knee-length pants is climbing a palm tree with an adze on his left shoulder. He is being supported by a rope belt. Palm nuts on the tree and on the base which is plywood covered by variegated thorn shavings. Heads, limbs, adze, and palm tree are dark brown. Clothing is light yellow-brown. Palm nuts are light red-brown.
A carved scene of a tree trunk covered with thorns and having a five-rung ladder set against the side. There is a bareheaded man on the third rung with a hatchet over his right shoulder. A man with a conical hat is on the ground holding the right side of the ladder and with a machete in his left hand. A basket is sitting on the ground to the left of the ladder. The men are wearing short-sleeved loose shirts and knee- length pants. The ground is covered with chips and shavings. Shirts, pants, machete, and basket are light yellow-brown. Heads, limbs, and hatchet are dark brown. Man's hat is light red-brown. The ladder is light brown wood. The base is covered in variegated thorn bush shavings.
Rawhide bottle (part a) with spherical base and elongated neck. Lid (part b) fits over outer edges of upper neck. The lower half of the base is covered with brown haired cowhide with white patches. Upper half has five narrow strips of cowhide alternating white and brown, four of which are linear, with the fifth and uppermost curvilinear. The uppermost linear strip is detached at end close to handle. Two looped handles are at opposite side of upper half of base. Base of neck has six linear strips of alternating brown and white cowhide with brown and white linear strip at upper end, and looped handle at top.
White animal hair whisk with multi-coloured woven leather handle. There is a loop of braided leather attached to end of handle with large knot. Where the handle and the whisk meet, there is a fringe made of leather strips that hang over the hair and is secured with a narrow white leather band. The handle is green, black, yellow, white and red.
Round leather drum secured to ceramic base by wooden pegs driven through the overlapped then glued leather. Drum head is white. The ceramic ring is red. There is a fibrous hook.
Curved wooden drumstick. The small round head has been covered with leather.
Palm tree on a wood base of variegated thorn bush carvings. Figure is being held by a rope while climbing the tree. At the base of the tree, there are three ritual masks, one figure, five horns, and one vessel. The figure climbing the tree is wearing a short-sleeved shirt, short trousers, and a soft pointed hat. An axe is resting on his right shoulder. The small figure at the base has a horn placed on either side. Three remaining horns are placed on the masks and a vessel is placed between the small figure and the largest mask. The base, tree, masks, head, limbs, and three horns are dark brown. Hats, two horns, and vessel are light red-brown. Small figure at the base, shirt, and trousers are light yellow-brown.
Three figures representing people standing in front of two mask-like heads which are resting against a low wall-like support. One mask has a horn protruding from the side of the head and the other has two horns. The centre figure is holding a horn in its right hand and a perforated cylinder in its left, and she is wearing a short-sleeved dress. The woman on her right has her arms outstretched towards the masks, and she is wearing a sling around her waist over a sleeveless dress. The man on her left is holding a chicken, and he is wearing a sleeveless tunic and short pants. The heads, arms, legs, masks and three horns are dark brown. The chicken and perforated object are light red-brown. The clothing and two horn containers are light yellow-brown. Carvings are set on a platform covered with thorn tree chips.
A ritual scene with twelve figures representing people, one animal, two birds, two masks, three containers, and a drum. Two mask-like faces have been carved into the trunk of one tree and one into the trunk of the other. Eleven of the participants are surrounding and facing the trees between which is standing the twelfth. One participant is holding the head of a dog-like animal. Another is holding a drum and a stick. All figures are standing in a relaxed naturalistic posture. Three, including the central figure, are wearing skirted garments while the others are wearing trousers and shirts. Nine are wearing hats of various types. A bird is perching on top of each tree. At the left back corner, there is a mask with an attached container leaning against a supporting wall. The second mask, on a base, and two containers are standing in front of the trees, and the central figure. At the top of each mask, there is an oval tilted object, possibly a container for oil. The clothing and animal are light yellow-brown. Human skin, hair, trees, masks, and drum are dark brown. The birds, hats, and containers are light red-brown. Variegated shavings are thinly scattered on the base.
Three figures representing people, involved in a ceremony, facing a shrine wall with two masks mounted on plywood back covered with variegated thorn shavings. Kneeling female figure wearing only a long skirt is touching a horn protruding from a mask placed against the shrine wall and touching the forehead of a second mask which has horns protruding from the forehead. Two male figures wearing knee-length pants are each holding a horn in their right hands and one is wearing a draped cloth hat. Figures, masks, three horns, and some chips are dark brown. Clothing and some chips are light yellow-brown. Two horns and some chips are light red-brown. Carvings are set on a platform covered with thorn tree chips. "Osa Oko of Longe" written on base.