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Basket with circular base and shape, woven in beige and brown. Designs created include diamond and triangular shapes, vertical bands of lines, small floral shapes, zigzags, and dots. The base is a thick weave in beige and, at the rim, ends are left in a fringe, except for three long braids of grass that extend up at each side and are bound together in a small tassel.
Basket or bag with square-shaped base and tassels at the corners, woven from grass dyed pink, turquoise, yellow and white. The design created is diagonal bands of the pink and turquoise beneath the name VANUATU woven in at the top. A braided border around the top rim extends into three long braids on each side that are all knotted together and the grass left loose at the ends.
Wooden mallet. Rectangular head has two curved lines carved into both ends and concave indents on both of the wider side hitting surfaces. At the bottom end of the handle is a small face with raised eyes and carved nostrils and mouth.
Large rectangular man's dance skirt. Made of two long panels of simply woven pale yellow grass that are woven together lengthwise with a seam that is invisible on one side. Grass ends have been double-folded and sewn to create a border along the outer long edges.
Headdress made of cassowary feathers and plastic bags. The ends of the bundled long feathers, tightly wrapped with strips of black, white, green or pink plastic bags are bound together into a flat band with double braids of a variety of rope pieces that join together at the sides and continue as long braided ties, with more plastic strips intertwined. Most of the feathers (dark and some light) stick upwards from the main section of the band while light ones hang downwards from each end.
Flat, square-shaped, light-coloured woven basket or bag with attached long grass fibre tassels. Made of a panel of basketry, folded in half and sewn along the opposite and bottom edges, it has long braided straps that are the continuation of several of the vertical strands at both top corners; the other vertical strands end in tiny knots that form a fringe along the top rim. Long strands of dark brown are interwoven to create two thick horizontal bands with a light design of opposing chevrons.
Flat rectangular-shaped woven basket or bag with long braided strap. On both flat sides, pink, turquoise, and green strands are interwoven with the natural coloured strands to create a design of two wide diagonal bands that cross at rim centre, from where nine small braids extend up into the thicker braids that are knotted at the end.
Colourful basket with rectangular base and oblong rim, woven with stiff pink, purple, white, green and natural coloured grass. Two looping macrame straps are attached at the top and bright yellow, pink, blue and green grass flowers and tassels decorated the front.
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.