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Black hat with a geometric shape of five exterior sides with two interior sides, forming a flat horizontal top. Top flares downward and outward and then angles back downward and inward for a downward point at either side, with the interior sides angling back upward and inward. There is a brass bar with openwork along the top. Dark hair is shaped into an oval where the head is supposed to fit.
Bun-shaped bundle of black hair in a black hair net.
Knife (part a) with long steel blade. Top edge at blade tip is carved out in notched pattern and the blade itself curves slightly lengthwise. Base of bone handle has interwoven wires wrapped around it, upper area has incised designs and tufts of pink, black and off-white hair sticking out of protrusion openings. The wood scabbard is made of two pieces held together with 15 encircling dark brown grass bands. There are also two designs of interwoven light and dark grass forming circular patterns. The wood of the scabbard (part b) has two areas of incised designs and four areas with pink, black and off-white hair tufts. At the back of the scabbard is a thin pod-like sheath attached, which has a woven grass handle and a string attached through a slit. A piece of stiff folded pig skin(?) protrudes from the bottom opening of the scabbard. There is a group of tufts of hair at the bottom of the scabbard. The wood of the scabbard appears to have been stained.
Knife with long blade and highly decorated scabbard. The blade has carved designs near tip and near handle. Bone handle has inter-woven wires wound around lower part and incised designs covering upper part. Tufts of pink, dark brown and off-white hair are attached at protrusions of handle. Blade has blackened throughout all non-sharpened areas. Part b is a wooden scabbard with four large areas of inlaid bone carving covering much of front, attached by bent metal pins. The bone carving closest to top has a fang-like protrusion sticking sharply out. Between the carvings are many tufts of red, black and white hair and two beadwork bands. The sides are held together with grass bands. At back is a thin pod-like sheath, attached by a grass band and by the woven handle protruding through an opening in the sheath. Dark brown pitch(?) is rubbed over the edges and undecorated areas of the front of the scabbard.
Bone-handled knife (part a) with long pointed metal blade. Base of bone handle has thick band of inter-woven wires wound around it, top has incised designs. At top and protrusion of handle there are tufts of hair, some dyed red, and longer strands of dark human hair. Blade has darkened to almost black in some areas. Part b is a wooden scabbard with incised designs in upper section, and at bottom. It has 14 dark brown double bands of grass encircling it. There are two woven circular designs made of light and dark coloured grass, among the bands. On the upper part there are 14 rows of light coloured grass wound around and through the wood underneath the incised design. Attached to the back of the scabbard is a thinner scabbard that appears to be made from a seed pod(?) which is lashed onto the scabbard with string and wire. There is a braided grass handle attached at the back of the scabbard, and a tie of cotton printed fabric tied to the handle. The wood of the scabbard has a red stain(?) over most of its surface and there is another longer tuft of hair attached behind the scabbard.
A brown woven hat that has a coiled band going along the top from the front to the back. Red-brown hair is erect at the front with a tail-like effect at the back. The hat is mainly brown with yellow stripes. String is attached to both sides.
Carved, wood stool consisting of a standing figure on a base with bent knees and arms extending parallel to body. Palms facing inside body. The large, oval shaped face is fringed with cassowary feathers and elaborately painted brown, black and white. Framing the face is inlaid with small cowrie shells. The face has circular-like shapes encompassing the large protruding eyes inlaid with shells. The nose is long, narrow and slightly projects at the tip. On the cheeks are triangular tattoo-like incisions. The mouth is open with the tongue protruding out. The chest is incised with geometric designs and a large rectangular carved pendant in the middle. Around the waist is a woven cord loincloth covering the prominent genital area. Attached to the lower back of the figure is semi-circular stool with a small mask on lower part of leg. The face is incised with lines and has protruding eyes, nose and tongue. The body of the figure is covered in black, charcoal ? pigment.
Carved wood mask consisting of a head with an elongated brow; a long nose, mouth and chin. The top of the head is decorated with cassowary feathers and a small tuft of human hair. The face is elaborately detailed with dark blue, light blue and brown stylized designs on a white ground. There is a long, cylindrical shaped piece of wood that stretches from the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the mask; on the end is a small carved bird. The forehead and the side of the face are inlaid with rows of small shells; the eyes and sections of the forehead are detailed with inlaid cowrie shells. The nose has boar tusk on either side. The lower sides and bottom are lined with small bundles of sennit fibre. The bottom tip and the sides have bundles of black feathers.
Wig of black, curly human hair, sprinkled with yellow powder, stretched out on wooden sticks. Wig is oval in shape and has a broad, flat top.
Pair of medium brown human hair braids, secured at the top with tightly wound black thread and cotton tape. Secured at the bottoms with tightly wound black thread. Thick at the top end, tapering to the bottom. Small bow of black velvet ribbon at the top end.