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Bow made of a segment of cylindrical hardwood that tapers towards the ends and a length of hide string tied at the ends. The wood is wrapped in bark fibre (?) at either end on the inside of the hide wrapping, and this fibre is coated in black tar resin.
The blade is a white stone with a brown edge. The handle is rounded, made of black resin and coated with yellow ochre pigment. The ochre pigment has worn away in places, exposing the black resin underneath.
Reed flute with no finger holes. One end has been left with only a small hole to allow the manipulation of sound.
Spear for catching crayfish. Four bent barbed nails fastened to a palm wood handle by wire and fibre rope. The end of the handle is notched, possibly to attach an extension.
Quiver and dart set. Cylindrical wooden quiver (part a) with lid (part b) is attached to hollow corked gourd (part c) by rope-like fibre. The gourd is stuffed with a natural coloured fibre. There are forty-one barbed darts (d-ss), two of which have wound wool-like fibres at one end; part f is a piece of fibre.
Hollow, straight bone with 2-ply twisted cord attached at one end using a tar resin? White feathers attached to end of cord with same resin. Cord is painted rust red.
A flat gray stone makes up the blade while the handle is dark brown resin. The resin handle has worn away at the very end, exposing the lighter brown material underneath.
The blade is gray stone and the handle is rounded, black resin.