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Tamer's headdress. Cedar bark headdress in the form of a rounded beak: two semi-circular flaps at front representing a beak with two long oval shapes that sit on top of beak, a hooked nose that projects out over the beak. Bunched cedar strips are attached at the top of the headdress frame with thick white string, and white string is wrapped around the base of the frame at the back. (Photos show mask without the nose piece; nose repaired in 2021.)
Spear with pointed elongated cone shape and a cylindrical wooden shaft with a pointed tip that has been bound to the pointed tip with strips of metal that also wind around the shaft in a spiral.
Two matching strands of beads wound around hide thong, metal cones attached to the ends. Bead colours alternating in brown and yellow stripes.
Brown medicine horn with green, black, red, blue, and white beads strung on thread and wound around the top rim of the horn. White beaded handle is attached to both sides of the opening of the horn. There are two paper labels attached to the handle, one is white, and one is brown.
U-shaped band embellished with alternating sections of black and red beads several by light brown lines. There are two loops at each end of the necklace. Beads are strung on string, and then wound around the rolled fabric tube.
Predominantly black U-shaped band embellished with sections of beading in zigzag and striped patterns in various colours: black red, white, green, orange, blue, pink, and yellow. Fabric tube backing is rolled and beads are threaded and wound around rolled fabric. There is a loop on one end of the necklace and a beaded toggle at the other end that fit together to secure the necklace.
Spindle, consisting of a wooden shaft with a cone shaped whorl near one end with a conical, wrapped section of plied yarn resting on the flat surface of the whorl. The middle of the shaft has a section of losing wound, plied yarn which is attached to a compactly wound round ball of paired yarns. The yarn wound around the shaft is tightly plied while the yarn in the ball is not plied.
Green painted, boat-shaped, wooden shuttle with solid end points and hollowed out central area. Notches at the ends of the hollowed out area support a metal rod which holds the wooden bobbin on which white yarn is wound. The yarn is fed to the outside of the shuttle through a single slot positioned in the centre of one side. The shuttle is crudely carved and the green paint is worn off in some sections. One chip along the upper edge.
A band of brown string wound over wood, tapering to two arms with loops, one fitted through the other. The top feathers are red, green, yellow, white, blue, and grey and decorate the wide part. Cowrie shells line the lower edge. Below, on strings, there are hanging two lines of small cowries, two single cowrie shells and two fragments of other shells.
An ornament of four white and brown boar's tusks pierced at both ends with a brown fibre strap tied on.