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Small pyro-engraved bird figure. The bird's head and body is made from a single gourd, with the stem as the neck and head. A beak is attached to the face and coloured yellow. The bird stands on two tall, thin legs, which are mounted on a convex base made from the bottom of a gourd. The bird's feet are engraved into the gourd. Another piece of gourd is attached to the back of the bird as tail feathers. The side of the base has "MAX INGA A, La Encantada, Chulucanas, Piura, Peru 27-4-80" carved into it.
Bini mask carved of wood. A woman's face with a small nose, small mouth, and large almond-shaped eyes with angled cutouts beneath. She wears a headdress with a small figure front and centre with a small tray directly behind them, and then another anthropomorphic figure extending up over the tray. The eyes, mouth and tray are coloured white with chalk. On either side of the central figure are carved decorations, and attached jar-like ornaments.
Roughly rectangular, mottled white and grey piece of stone covered with incised hieroglyphs on one side. Hieroglyphics arranged in columns.
Wide sword-shaped brown wood club. 'Blade' has four vertical designs of spiral scroll lines bordered by a zig zag band at either end along with three shorter ones vertically downward near toward the middle, one side of which also has a band of circles in between. Emphasized with white chalk. 'Blade' flares outward to a flat blunt end. The 'grip' flares outward to a spiral and scroll design around the base with a simpler design around the base of the 'pommel'.
Wide sword-shaped brown-black wood club. 'Blade' has designs of five vertical scrolls borderd by a zig zag line at either end near the blunt end where there is a blunt protrusion. Emphasized with white chalk. 'Blade' flares outward to a flat blunt end. The 'grip' flares outward to a wavy line. Rounded 'pommel' has a carved 'frame' in a u-shape.
Figure representing a full length nude male. Three curves outline the hairline. High forehead creating protruding eyebrows. A triangular nose with nostrils. Ovoid eyes. Notched effect outlining the oval mouth. Notched effect around the sides of the face and the chin. From the square shoulders, the thin arms are straight at the sides until they are bent at the elbows so that the hands are touching each other at the front where they are holding an object. Has genitalia, rounded buttocks, legs with crease-pointed knees, and stubby feet. Has a metal base.
Figure representing a full length nude male wearing a hat and a necklace. The hat is rounded around the head with vertical radiating grooves along the sides surrounded by horizontal grooved lines around the rim. High forehead creating protruding eyebrows. A rectangular nose. Ovoid eyes. Has horizontal slits creating upraised lips which are surrounded by a grooved oval line. Notched effect around the sides of the face and the chin. The necklace consists of four rings attached together with vertical pieces. From the square shoulders, the thin arms are straight at the sides until they are bent at the elbows so that the hands are touching each other at the front. Has genitalia, rounded buttocks, legs with high-pointed knees, and stubby feet. Has a metal base.
Triangular shaped wooden prow with a cylindrical shaped base that tapers to a point. The sides of the base are incised with a repeating stylized geometric design. Attached below is a framework of triangular shapes intermixed with fish and bird heads. White pigment outlines the shapes while orange pigment is added to the engravings. Five fibre tassels hang from the base.
Mask with a concave face, protruding eyes, a looped nose, concave ears, and a dish-like oval object on the forehead. A rail runs below the face, and another bound with cassowary feathers and brown feathers are also spaced evenly along the rail. Cassowary feathers decorate the nose and sennit fibre tassels hang from the ears. The mask is made of rattan woven over a frame of wood that is thinly coated with clay. The facial features are emphasized with black and white pigment.
Cylindrical brown carved wooden headdress with human head features. Surface is smooth with a few adze marks. Head is hollow with rectangular orifice at the back; and one on top of head surrounded by an oval carved rosette with white outer edge. Neck is open to fit head above the brow of wearer. Ears are small, flat and scooped out; face is long with flat nose, puffy checks, white lenticular eyes and mouth, bared white teeth (six upper and five lower). Three incised parallel scarification marks are incised on upper cheeks from below ears to nose and three similar lines arch from above ears and meet at mid-forehead.