Object Listing

Long thin curved pin decorated along half of its length with animal hair wound around its shaft with beads attached. Hair is unwinding in one part of the design.

Long thin curved pin with a spatula-shaped end that is serrated around its edges.

Long thin curved pin decorated along half of its length with animal hair wound around its shaft.

Long thin straight pin with a small round finial. A short span of the shaft is decorated with animal hair wound around . Hair is unwinding in one part of the design.

Long thin curved pin with a small round finial. Two short spans of the shaft are decorated with animal hair wound around.

Staff surmounted with a anthropomorphic head in turn surmounted by a bulbous end on a smaller bulb. The eyes are red seeds

Staff surmounted with a anthropomorphic head in turn surmounted by a bulbous end. The head and torso of the figure take a geometricised architectonic form of a tapering vertical hollow frame with 4 pillars as support. The eyes are red and black seeds

Knife consisting of a metal blade and a carved wooden upper section. The blade finial has an projecting truncated cone with cylindrical top above a narrower flatter section of the handle above the blade. The scabbard is made in two pieces of carved wood - bound together with bands of copper wire. It has a rectangular based fastener which terminates in four inward pointing triangular planes. This has a hole through it.

Metal knife with carved wooden handle and wooden sheath. Sheath and handle have carved geometric designs on them

Staff of pale wood engraved along its length with linear designs and blackened. The top has a small bulb and the bottom has a small bifurcated end.

Curved leaf-shaped blade from one piece of bone or ivory. The top section is a long triangular blade with truncated tip. The central section has been carved into an intricate repeating openwork design and the handle is narrow and tubular.

Staff with an arrow-like end and just below two winged projections. The head is carved in relief with amasumpa designs in geometric arrangement.

Staff with two bulbs near its end and a further projection below this. The upper bulb is flattened from side to side and has a ridge running around the flattened end. Between the two bulbs and the projection for a short distance down the shaft there is a sheath of beading

Upper transverse plane curved up at either end. It has a chip out of one edge. Vertical support consists of a central panel that has four struts above and four struts below. These are in pairs of twos angles to form V-shapes - the top two connect to the crossbar and the bottom two to the base. In the middle is a flattish rectangular section that has two circular designs on one side and two on the opposite side. The area between is covered with Zig-zag and linear designs all carved in relief. The reverse side matches in form but the areas are filled with different designs also carved in relief. The base is a raised trilobal structure with projecting V-shapes in the two indentations between the lobes back and front

Shallow woven bowl-type basket. Its edges are trimmed with beads and it has geometric linear beaded designs on its outer surface and a loop of beads as a handle.

Wide flat flaring circular hat made from reddened fibre with attached bead panels (some in isishunka designs) and other beaded decorations.

Pleated leather skirt with beaded belts and other beaded elements added.

Beadwork attached to a woven grass belt in two sections. Beadwork in isishunka sequence . Brass buttons as decoration on each end.

Beadwork attached to a woven grass belt in two sections. Beadwork in isishunka sequence. Some added decoration in white beading

Two belts sewn together. Beadwork in both is attached to a woven grass belt in two sections. Beadwork in isishunka sequence . Brass buttons as decoration on each end and in the centre.

Finely woven shallow open bowl-type basket. It has 4 roughly triangular designs woven as part of the surface of the basket. Their wide edges are aligned with the rim of the basket and the pointed ends at the centre. It is edged with red beads and has beaded designs on its outer surface

Spherical vessel with small foot and neck that flares outward. It has a circle of amasumpa designs around its shoulder and 2 V-shapes containing diamond shaped panels in the point also constructed from raised amasumpa designs.

Small spherical vessel with 5 rectangular panels of raised amasumpa designs offset at an angle from the horizontal

necklet of beads with two square panels with bird motifs on each

necklet of beads with two square panels with triangular motifs on each

necklet of beads with two square panels with diamond and triangular motifs on each

necklet of beads with two square panels with shield motifs on each