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A long metal piece with a bird on three long hollow conical pieces opening upward at the top with a ring below. Three-quarters of the way down, there is a small horseshoe-like object around the long metal piece just above four medium hollow conical pieces opening downward. Nearer to the bottom are four small hollow conical pieces opening downward.
A carved head with shoulders for the base. There is a headpiece carved with a tassle on the left side. The headpiece is decorated with carved horizontal lines and feather-like patterned bands with a vertical feather-like pattern in the middle outlined with two lines. Lines have been carved at diagonal angles for the sideburns. The head is pointed in the middle. The face has big bulging rounded oval-like eyes with a triangular nose and a pointed mouth with crooked teeth. There are two ears at the sides and two handle-like pieces at the back of the head.
Dark brown coloured oval-shaped mask with two protruding panels on the top. The lower half is a human face mask with protruding eyebrows, cut-out eyeballs, small wide nose with cut-out nostrils, closed mouth and small chin protrusion. The top half is somewhat cone-shaped, decorated with cross-hatching. Protruding from either side of the head on thick posts are carved panels with overall cross-hatching detail and a central lizard-like design carved into the wood.
Adire (indigo dyed) cloth. Composed of two pieces of cloth, which are each made of three pieces of cloth. Decorated with an indigo resist-dyed design in light blue on dark blue composed of flowers, human figures at the centre, lion faces, birds, letters, and numbers. Each side is machine-stitched with light yellow thread that curves outwards at each corner.
Adire (indigo dyed) cloth. Yellow and light blue, hatched and crosshatched, geometric and floral patterns on indigo and black. Overall checkered pattern, composed of two pieces of cloth sewn together at the centre. The underside is solid indigo and black in a checkerboard pattern.
Adire cloth composed of two pieces of indigo resist-dyed cloth stitched along the centre. The surface is divided by two wide bands of stripes running parallel to the edge and bisected by two wide bands of white stripes running perpendicular to form rectangular spaces filled in with with light blue to white lines forming crosshatched patterns and alternating blue and light blue to white stripes. Rows of stitch holes are visible on the pattern lines. The ends perpendicular to the centre seam are unfinished.
Adire cloth type textile composed of two pieces of cloth sewn together to form a rough square. The textile is resist-dyed with alternating bands of indigo and white. The ends are unfinished.
Adire (indigo dyed) cloth. Composed of two panels, each made from squares with resist-dyed indigo designs. The designs are composed mainly of light blue bands composed of short lines and small circles with a band of small circles at two opposing edges. Small bits of palm leaf raffia are still found stitched along the pattern lines.
A carved wood female figure with a flat chin holding a bowl on her head. Hair is carved with an elaborate braid coiled around her head, on top of which, there is a bowl carved with a snake around it. The eyes bulge outward; wide nose and lips. There are three vertical scarification marks on each cheek. Her arms are bent perpendicularly at the elbows so that her hands are on her angled breasts. She is in a kneeling position.
Brown decorated pot with a flat base, round body tapering to a small neck and flared rim. The rim has a cross-hatch design. Tiny points circle around the neck. Attched to the upper body are animal figures and symbols. Around the body middle is a double band of vertical indentations. The lower body is undecorated.