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Ornament consisting of a central, light brown disc with dark brown x’s surrounding and overlapping a stylized animal. Tied to the top is a looped string of grey and red seeds. Hanging from the bottom are eights strings of grey and red seeds.
Headdress made from a hide headband with various articles attached to it. The hide band--which is covered in several shades of brown fur--has five pointed protrusions: three at the front and two at the back. The three protrusions at the front of the band have spherical, halved gourds sewn onto them; the central protrusion features a plume of black, brown and blue feathers attached behind the gourd. A fringe of halved brown seeds dangles from the bottom rim of the headband.
A small rounded red-brown gourd with a carved mushroom cap wood stopper in the neck secured by string.
Three gourd fruit spoons with oval shaped bowls that have a different simple linear design inside each. The first piece (part a) is the smallest, the second piece (part b) is the longest, and the third piece (part c) is the widest.
Red-brown gourd (part a) that has a spiral pattern burned black on brown. Carved cap with a woven cover is attached to the gourd by a piece of string through the cap which is then secured to the side of the gourd by a yellow bead. Twenty-seven dart covers (parts b-bb) made of carved pith are inside the gourd.
Bronze hook for hanging and bronze rim. Six characters in red and gold lacquer on gourd handle; grass is held together by two coiled bands of string.
A large object (part a) with a long wood band across two-thirds of the way down a wood arched frame. Above the long wood band, there are fourteen flat rectangular wood pieces lying perpendicular to the long wood band but parallel in association with each other and tied together with skin and string. Below the long wood band, there are ten gourds decreasing in size all in a row. (Gourds and plaques tied and resinated together.) There are two sticks (parts b-c). The largest gourd (part d) is loose.
Traditional Hausa carved design. Natural colour with grey lines, possibly in pencil, and dusted with white powder (?). Part (a), base has five carved parallel lines with scallop design above, all around near top. Two deeply carved lines near base, and base carved into nine quadrants, cross hatched on four, lines in the corners, and central square has diamond and lines carved within. Lid, part (b), has scallop design near rim, two parallel lines, and band of short parallel diagonal lines with horizontal cuts, two parallel lines, and cut-out interwoven oval shapes, with carved circles. Large center circle with four carved concentric rings and a cut-out center.
Large calabash bowl with a semi-spherical shape. The outside of the bowl was dyed dark red. The entire bowl has shallow engraved design of various geometric patterns of lines, triangles and diamonds. There is a solid red stripe along the rim.
Spoon carved from a halved gourd with poker-work leaf designs on the outer side of the spoon bowl and sets of two lines running across the handle.