Large rectangular tapa cloth. The base colour of the cloth is stained a medium brown, with unpainted strips of light brown on either end. The cloth is painted with a dark brown, possibly oil based, pigment in squares with repeating patterns of birds, animals, outdoors scenes with a house, tree, sun, moon and star, a Tongan shield motif, and a central panel with triangles, lines, and lettering. At each end is a light brown strip with a bird and number in each square; 18 to 21 at one end, 19 to 22 at the other end.

Large contemporary woven string bag (bilum) decorated with dyed stripes, different types of shells, chicken feathers, wooden beads, branches with seeds, small fan-shapes made of cut-up plastic packages, possum jaws, boar tusks and pieces of tapa cloth.

Colourful headdress with a turtle on mulberry fibre, wrapped around the front of a corrugated cardboard and plastic head ring covered with white fabric and decorative elements. A long blonde hair wig and pink feathers are stitched on to a frame at the back. Around and above the nose of the turtle are bands of green and red metal beads and brown shells, from the top of which project five black fabric-covered wood sticks with white shells and ivory coloured polished coconut shell rings adhered to their lengths.

Small rectangle of tapa cloth with smaller rectangular design on one side painted brown, pale red, and black. Central floral motif with four large brown petals and four smaller black ones is set within a large diamond, with identical opposing sides, which is itself set within a circle filled with short black horizontal lines. On either side, a half circle filled with similar motifs is separated two vertical brown leaves.

Small rectangle of tapa cloth with smaller rectangular design on one side painted brown, pale red, and black. Two large floral motifs with four black petals and four brown leaves, set within circles of concentric brown rings, are separated by two large oblong petals with teeth-like design; half of a similar design are at either end.

Small rectangle of tapa cloth with smaller rectangular design on one side painted brown, pale red, and black. Central floral motif with four black petals and four smaller pale red ones is set within a large diamond, with identical opposing sides, which is itself set within a circle filled with short brown horizontal lines. On either side, a half circle filled with similar motifs is separated two vertical brown leaves with black centres.

Large tapa cloth dyed brown in patches with black painted decoration. The numbers 46 through 50 are evenly spaced down each side and two vertical bands of printed letters are in the middle. Bands of elongated diamond shapes filled with a leaf design separate areas of floating triangular and vegetal designs.

Large rectangular bark cloth with designs in red-brown, brown and black, on the natural coloured ground. The designs consist of rows of triangles inside rectangles, with various motifs inside the triangles. There are also three narrow bands--one at each end, and one off-centre.

Fifty-two samples of paper in different weights and colours, contained in a blue handmade folder. Inside the back of the folder is written "With best wishes to Miss Smith. J. Kom July 1954" in black felt pen.

The cloth is rectangular and natural coloured with patterns painted in brown and black. The patterns are arranged in horizontal bands. The bands on the top and bottom edges are repeated brown lines. The next band is made of black squares with two natural coloured flowers in the centre and el borate diamond and triangle borders. The next band has a black background with repeated natural coloured, three-prong figures. Another band has a black background with a natural coloured chain pattern. The final band has natural coloured parallelograms with a central flower and scored edges on a brown background. The cloth is made of two pieces joined together.