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Oval-shaped wire frame wound with sennit twine, and then three rows of shark's teeth affixed with wire.
Comb with 35 palm wood teeth and woven coconut husk fibre making diagonal patterns. Two horizontal sticks and twisted cord on top as handle.
Fully dressed doll with a coconut husk base, beaded necklace and earrings.This type of doll was created extensively for the burgeoning tourist market during the ealry 1900s.
Colourful wooden mask with two long ear panels and a red crested headdress of plant fibre. The red painted face, tattooed in yellow and black, is triangular-shaped with round shell eyes placed into the hollow eye sockets. The large mouth has two boar-like teeth amongst the smaller ones. From each nostril, a ring or band connects to the spotted ears, into which are carved a crested bird (rooster?) with shell eyes, a yellow and black snake and a small red flying fish. The headdress has an interior frame of rattan onto which are tied leaves and fibres.
Colourful wooden mask with a large yellow crested headdress of plant fibre. The red and yellow tattooed face is triangular-shaped with round shell eyes placed into the hollow eye sockets, the large hollowed mouth has four curving boar-like teeth amongst the smaller ones and a tongue(?) that hangs out to touch a necklace that connects to dangling earrings. The headdress has an interior frame of rattan onto which are tied the leaves and fibres.
Fat, disc-like drum made of folded coconut husks bound with braided grass rope. Short rope handle is attached to binding.
Pineapple-like head held in place with woven bands. The red-brown wood handle is decorated with woven bands, some plain and some fringed. The dark grey-black head has three horizontal rows of sixteen triangular protrusions all around. Underneath and through the hollow, cylindrical head, there is a long light-coloured woven band. Below, there is an upward flaring, red-brown fringe and two brown woven bands. At the end of the handle, there is a brown woven band coiled around with a downward flaring, red-brown fringe.
Dark brown shell cut in half, twisted and woven handle attached to one side. Fan-shaped handle has two double longitudinal ridged rows. Shell has a point at the end with three equally spaced vertical ridges around the sides.
Pair of torches. Part a is a torch made from coconut fibre and has a long wooden handle. The top of the torch is burnt and tapers slightly to a point. Part b is a torch made of light coloured fabric and has a short wooden handle. The top of the torch is burnt. The torch tapers slight at both ends.
Bowl made of a coconut shell with opening around 3/4 of the way from bottom. Twined string loop through two holes on either side of the rim and is knotted at the centre; outer surface is decorated on either side of each set of holes with four horizontal short lines.