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Bag, roughly rectangular, made of pandanus fibre with rounded corners at the bottom and a thin, folded lip at the opening. The front is adorned with a pattern of rectangles and red ochre sections of the same but smaller shape, surrounded by a border of lime. Three vertical lines, constructed of a raised weave running perpendicular to the main body, are painted with red ochre. An ochre stripe continues horizontally, around the middle of the back. The braided strap overlaps the body by 20 cm at each end; interwoven into the body and knotted on the backside just under the lip and at the ends.
Small bast string bag with a long strap. The long bag narrows at bottom where it closes with a tie, while open at top where a braided handle is attached at opposite edges. The bag is covered on both exterior and interior with a brown substance. Dried mud covers part of the bottom half.
A ruddy-brown grass skirt consisting of intermingled tight braids and open strips of sago leaf attached to a thicker braid waistband. At one end is a loop, at the other end a tie - two long braids are knotted together in the middle and again towards their ends out of which long tufts of unbraided sago leaf continue.
Grass skirt made of strips of sago leaf. The colour of the sago leaf strips varies from shades of brown to yellow. The front has two layers with a shorter section of straight strips attached to the waistband in five separate sections sitting in front of longer plaits that curl and fray at the bottom. The braided brown and yellow waistband ends in a loop on the right and single tie on the left which is knotted towards the end with a tuft of long strands.
Grass skirt consisting of long ruddy-brown blades of sago leaf attached to a broad, woven waistband of 5 rows and 24 columns, alternating between yellow-brown and dark brown fibres with remnants of red ochre. Four long tassels of tight braids drape from the top of the belt; two with cockatoo feathers at the ends. An undulating double row of coix seeds and a several yellow, blue and green plastic beads are threaded with fine, bright green nylon twine over the top of the belt. The waistband ends are broad loops; the right end has a long, broad, loosely woven braid of tight braids of sago leaf.
Grass skirt of ruddy-brown strips of sago leaf attached to a broad waistband of dark brown and tan fibres interwoven with braids of sago leaf. The left end of the belt is a thick, neat loop; the right end has two braided ties, the top being twice the width of the lower. Three thick tassels protrude from the waistband; the centre and left have a cylinder of tightly braided sago leaf clasping the top third of the tassel which supports them protruding outwards rather than being flat.
Grass skirt consisting of loose strands of sago leaf attached to a waistband. The waistband features three rows and seventeen columns of alternating dark brown and yellow-brown woven plant fibres bordered by braids of ruddy-brown sago leaf. Three thick tassels of knotted sago leaf strips protrude from the waistband clasped with cylinder appendages of woven dark brown and yellow-brown fibres in alternating ‘V’ patterns. The waistband ends in a broad loop at one end with a knotted tie of loose sago leaf strips; and at the other, a broad, loose braid with a thick knot from which sprouts a long tuft of loose strands and braids.
Grass skirt made of long, ruddy-brown, blades of sago leaf. A shorter layer, approximately 18cm, sits atop a longer, of approximately 28cm long. The waistband is wider in the middle, with seven rectanglular patterned sections of tan and brown plant fibre. Above this is a patterned cord of ruddy-brown and dark brown fibres. The waistband ends in a loop on the right side and two ties with knotted ends on the left.
Grass skirt made of braided sago leaf. Hundreds of small, tight braids are attached to two thicker braids that form the waist band. The braids on one half of the skirt are several centimetres shorter than on the other. A slight change of colour, in vertical stripes, can be detected in the braids. A knot of darker brown fibre sits at the centre of the waistband. One end is a loop with two knots; the other is two ties with three knots and loose ends.
Large dark brown wooden spoon. Handle of spoon has carved male human figure. From waist down on the figure there is a large hand wrapped around the figure with carved knuckles and fingernails. Neck of spoon tapers below figure and is incised with decorative carving. Bowl of spoon is wide and shallow; it tapers and curves up at the end. Raised spine in centre of bowl of spoon.