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Two figures representing a man and a woman standing on a wooden base. The man is wearing a pleated brimmed hat, a sleeveless loose tunic, and knee-length pants. He is sitting on a small cylindrical stool, holding between his legs a conical one-headed drum with striated sides. His arms are bending, and his fingers are resting on the edge of the drumhead. The woman is wearing a large softly draped hat, and a knee-length dress with elbow-length sleeves. She is standing with her feet slightly apart, and her arms slightly bent. She is bending forward as if bowing from the waist. Hats, dress, shirt, drumhead, and stool are light yellow-brown. Skin and drum body are dark brown.
Figure representing a sitting person on a cylindrical stool wearing a soft pointed hat, a sleeveless shirt, and knee-length trousers. Holding, in the figure's left hand, the outer edge of a conically shaped basket, and in the figure's right hand, one of two leaves attached to the edge of the basket. Head and limbs are dark brown. Clothing, basket, and stool are light yellow-brown. The base is light brown wood.
A cylinder tapering from an open mouth to a closed end with a hole which apparently is for a tether. The blowhole at the top is surrounded by four-prong star-like incised lines. Within the longest arm are six notches. Carved lines encircle the mouth rim and the opposite tip. Stained black but mostly worn to brown.
Figure representing a bent, bare headed woman with a baby tied to her waist, and she is holding a cone-shaped container filled with firewood. Her dress and baby sling are light yellow-brown. Firewood, heads, and limbs are dark brown. Base is light brown wood.
Shield composed of an oval piece of skin attached to an oval wooden frame. The frame is attached with strips of bark (?) which is wrapped around the frame, then through the skin every fourth or fifth time. At the top and bottom, woven bark (?) fills the gap between the edge of the frame and the skin. The upper portion of the back has three wooden pieces which cross and then loop onto the frame.
A horizontal wood element of wood stained dark brown and carved to two pointed ends with a repetitive pattern underneath. Bird-like heads dominate both ends. Legs are of bamboo cut and wrapped around the horizontal, then bound with fibre to form two a-shapes.
Two figures representing men with bare heads, and feet. Both are wearing short pants and shirts, and stand bent forward facing each other. One is holding a double-headed pressure hourglass drum under his left arm. A strip of black cloth with yellow stripes is attached to the drum and goes over the man's left arm. His right hand is holding a bent drum stick against one end of the drum. The other man is holding a flat triangular object like a folded cloth used by a dancer. Both figures are bowing slightly. Heads, limbs, body of drum, and drum stick are dark brown. Clothes, drum head, and folded clothes are light yellow-brown. On a wood base.
Figure representing a man wearing short pants, a short-sleeved tunic, and a cap while holding a calabash drum between his hands. Small chips resembling cowrie shells or beads are strung on the outside centre of the calabash. The neck of the calabash is being held in his right hand, and his left hand is against the bottom. Clothes and 'shells' are light yellow-brown. Drums, limbs, and head are dark brown. On a light brown wood base.
Rectangular shed with open front and plywood floor, half sidewalls, back wall, and roof. Outside of roof and walls are covered with variegated thorn shavings. Large upright posts at left and right front support sloping roof. Each post has a large carved, ritual human face suspended from the top. Inside, there are figures representing people. Three ritual human figures and two large carved ritual heads are leaning against the centre of the rear wall. Gun hangs above the left figure while two others lean against the inner sides of the front poles. Three ritual carved human heads are stacked inside the right front post and one rests on the rear of the right sidewall. Facing ritual figures, there is a sitting man with a long hair or a headdress, clothed, and hands extended. At his right, there is an animal with a rope around his neck. Behind him in a semi-circle, there are nine men with bare heads, forearms, and feet. They are wearing tunics and pants. They are facing the ritual figures. At the right rear, there is standing a drummer playing an hourglass drum. Clothes, parts of guns, animal, some ritual heads, parts of ritual figures, and drumhead are light yellow-brown. Human skin, heads, and parts of ritual figures are dark brown. Some carved heads are light red-brown.
Two figures representing people. One is standing, slightly bent with a cylindrical drum on a strap around the neck, and wearing a hat, a short-sleeved shirt, and knee-length trousers with small sticks in both hands. Other figure is standing on the head and forearms wearing knee-length trousers and legs bent forward from hips. Shirt, trousers, and drum head is light yellow-brown. Figures and body of drum are dark brown. Hat is light red-brown. The small sticks are light brown wood. The base is light brown wood stained brown.