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Square basket (a) and lid (b) with rounded tops and bottoms; actually two baskets--one fitting over other--called a "telescope basket." Sides lacquered in various shades of brown and natural. Band of alternating rows of dark brown and natural around the centre.
Flaring, vase-shaped hand drum with a clay stand and a glazed snakeskin head bound with rattan. Bands of wavy designs are combed into the stand around the top and bottom.
Plain, hollow, cylindrical, brown container with lid, wrapped with three woven bands to secure the elongated v-shaped, carved hook, dark brown wood handle. A red-brown gourd with a light-coloured lid is also attached with cord.
Mat in a shield shape made of black and natural rattan to form a geometric design that consists of two vertical bands of a plain zig zag on a black background with a plain cross or star shape in each black space. Above, in the pointed end, the design pattern consists of alternating squares that have lines within which are perpendicular to those of the squares next to them. Painted end has a red cloth along the diagonal sides that converge to a point. Yellow, red, white, and black beads along with six tassels of the same connected by shell rosettes or a coin decorate the red cloth.
Percussion instrument. Skin stretched over a turned, dark brown wooden base. The round base has a hollow, upward flaring, shape. Discs of shim brass at edges, to create more sounds. Skin is edged with tape and nailed.
The sword handle is made from a dark brown wood and the end is carved into two sides between which a leaf emerges. The sheath is made from two pieces of wood tied together with five pieces of rattan.
Simple hilt on dagger (part a) which has a small metal point blade and a slightly curving red-brown handle. Large sheath (part b) has several patterns carved with geometric scroll-like designs and black and tan woven bands, the inner two of which have a swirl-like shape within a circle within an x formation while the outer two of which are simple coiling bands. Small sheath is very plain. Looped cord attachment with shell pendant.
Open weave carrier: rectangular frame with braided borders; tie closure up the front; shoulder straps made from palm leaf.
Long dagger with wooden handle, horn guard, and wooden sheath. Sheath is wide at the end closest to the handle and tapers to a rounded point at then other end. There is red fibre cording wrapped around the tip of the sheath and the other end of the sheath in a knotted square sequence. Blue fibre cording is wrapped around the middle of the sheath in the same manner. The horn guard has jagged grooves around its edges. There is a natural coloured fibre cord attached to the horn guard.
Long, dagger-like knife (a) with wooden sheath (b). Knife handle decorated with woven band. Plain curved handle. Simple sheath with fish-tail-like decoration. Sheath made of two pieces bound together with string.