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Wooden hoe with a short cylindrical, branch handle lashed with fibre twine to a large rectangular shaped, flat blade. There is a large indentation near the back of the blade where it is lashed.
Pick made with a wooden, cylindrical shaped handle that tapers to a pointed end. The pick is a large, cylindrical shaped bone that is incised with a band of triangular designs. The end has been carved into a point. The two pieces are attached together by tightly woven thin strips of fibre.
Adze with a haft made from a thin branch. The thick end is flattened with the metal blade resting on it. The blade is held together by another piece of wood; all pieces are lashed together with braided twine.
Carved wooden bat, cylindrical in shape with a tapering through the shaft and a small bulbous bottom edge. The head of the bat has a slightly flatten bottom with a thin, triangular, fin like protrusion on the top. Around the fin is a striped incised design with coiled ends, in the cuts is a white pigment. The remaining head of the bat is painted with red, black and light brown diagonal stripes.
Carved wooden, oval shaped board with engraved designs. Detailed are ten bands of different geometric designs consisting of horizontal lines, diagonal lines, triangles and a t-like shape pattern. Covering the top is a light brown pigment. The underside is undecorated.
Dark brown enclosed container of plant leaves encasing mineral salt, and tied at top. Salt crystals appear on exterior.
A light brown container with the upper half having an oval-like shape and the lower half having a round shape. The design consist of spirals, zig zags, straight lines, and dots. Through a hole at the top there is a fibre looped cord tied. Within the container is a piece of woven fibre.
An ornament with the central piece being a flat, round, circular shell from which dangles a cowrie shell surrounded by black-brown seed beads and two strings of green and red beads with a seashell at each end and a plant fibre, possibly grass, below. The central piece has the following written in pencil: "BELE & KARE Tamana".
An ornament with the central piece being a tusk hook from which dangles a braided fibre rope overlapped with shells tied around it.
A wide bowled spoon. The handle has a hole in the middle of the top central part where it is edged at the top with four protruding grooves, and there is a protruding vertical rectangle at each side.