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Conical child figure with 4 beaded rings around body. Figure has arms made from a long loop of beads strings that has 6 small beaded rings threaded onto it. It has a round head that is beaded with eyes and mouth indicated in white and black beads. She wears a small arch of beads on her head, a thin ring of beads around her neck and two small loops as earrings

Conical child figure with 6 beaded rings around body. Figure has arms made from two loops of beads each with three small beaded rings . It has a round head that is beaded with eyes and nose indicated in white and black beads. It has a beaded chain with two rectangular panels draped over the body as well as 2 tiny leather and bead aprons on a beaded loop around the lower section of the body. She has a lacy necklace of beads around her neck.

Conical child figure with 7 beaded hoops around body. Figure has arms made from two strings of beads - the right hand side with 4 small beaded hoop and the left with three. It has a round head that is beaded with eyes and nose indicated in white and black beads. It has a beaded string with 2 tiny leather and bead aprons front and back around the lower section of the body. She has a necklace of beads around her neck.

Conical child figure with 10 beaded rings around body. Figure has a long loop for arms small beaded front and back aprons with a fringes of fur and carrys a small hide shield with a beaded staff on its back

Conical child figure with 7 beaded hoops around body and no arms. It has a round head that is beaded with eyes and nose indicated in white and black beads. It has a beaded string with 2 tiny leather aprons front and back around the lower section of the body. The figure also has a belt of interlinked grass rings with wool threaded through and pompoms suspended.

Tall conical figure completely sheathed in beadwork with a mop of beaded fringes for hair and a brass button as a face. It has an interlinking triangle/diamond design on its sheathing

Dance staff with a vertical beaded pole with two symetrically arranged horizontal beaded poles and 4 struts supporting these at 45° The two horizontal poles have 4 each short beaded pillars with rounded heads.

Staff with round finial and two figures as part of the shaft. The lower figure (possibly male)holds one arm at the side with the other across the front while the other figure (possibly female) holds the arms at the back. The straight sections of the shaft are sheathed in brass wire work 4 bands with smaller bands around the necks of the figures

Staff surmounted by a seated man wearing a hat, jacket, trousers and shoes holding a book. The man and chair rest on a round flat platform. Below the platform are three bands of decoration - a bulb with short cylindrical projections; found raised elongated 'O' shapes and two narrow bands of pleats.

Staff with flattened round finial and standing man carved 2/3 of the way up the shaft. Man is dressed in hat, jacket, shirt trousers and shoes and holds his hands down by his sides. He has holes in his rounded ears

Staff surmounted by woman wearing a 'bustle-like dress, a small round hat. Below her shirt line the shaft of the staff begins (no delineated legs). Below her are 4 short projecting cylinders and below that 4 raised diamond shapes with their ends pointing along the shaft line . Along the rest of the shaft ate two reptullian creatures that carved on either side of the shaft and facing up. (See Casalis for similar staff)

Staff with standing man as finial. He wears a round hat, boots but has no apparent clothes. No genitalia are shown. He also has a mustache. Arms are held stily down sides and are joined to the figure from rge elbow down. The thighs are elongated. The two legs from mid thighs have a flat ovoid form between them to which the figure is attached. Below the feet is a short section that bulges out and which is embellished with grooved lines in a swirl around the shaft

Staff with bifurcated finial on which two heads are carved. These face each other. Tip of staff has a rubber cap.

Staff with two male figures from the waist up wearinging headrings facing outwards surrmounted by a baboon - its front feet on one head and its back feet on the other.

Staff with standing man as finial. He has a headring and front and back loin coverings. His arms are slender with the left held tightly to his side and the right bent with the hand on a swollen belly. He has no feet and his lower legs end in the top of the staff shaft.

Staff with finial as standing man with headring, pubic and buttock covering and hands together in front of stomach. No feet-legs are extension of finial.

Staff with a seated man as finial. Man appears to be seated on the top of the shaft with his legs bent at the knee as if grasping the shaft. He has very small arms bent at the elbow - one appears shorter than the other. He has a headring and a beard. Shaft is not straight and undulates along its length.

Beaded staff with short cross arms at the top and a round beaded finial. It has geometric patterns up its shaft and bands of colour around its arms.

Staff with male head finial with headring. Below this approximately a quarter of the length of the staff distance is an ovoid shape that juts out frontwards that has two hemispherical indentation - one in its upper surface and one in its lower.

Staff with elongated male head finial with headring. The eyes are two metal disks. The tip of the staff is an ovoid knob that has grooved lines carved over its surface.

Staff with male head with headring as finial. The headring is tall with the ring around the top rim. The eyes appear to be downcast, the mouth is slightly open and teeth can be seen. It has hair that is indicated through grooved lines carved over the surface of the head.

Staff surmounted with standing woman with chicken on her head. Both face the same way. She stands on a widened section at the top of the shaft that has parallel grooved lines at a slant carved around it. She has no feet and wears a skirt and has a cylindrical top knot.. He belly is swollen as if pregnant. Her hands are held behind her back.

Staff with standing woman as finial. She has a conical hairstyle and wears a skirt. A baby clings to her back with its arms and legs grasping around the mother's body and its head turned to the right. The mother has slender arms held tightly to her sides. She has no feet and her lower legs end in the top of the staff shaft.

Staff with standing female figure as finial. She has very short arms held at her sides with spatula-like fingers. She wears a neck ornament and a front pubic covering with waist band all decorated with grooved crosshatch designs. Her hair is a series of parallel deep grooves running front to back. She stands on the top of the staff with her feet overlapping slightly. Just below her feet is an ovoid bulge that is carved with parallel grooved lines coiling around the staff.

Staff with a seated woman as finial. She has white seed bead eyes, wears a straight skirt and appears to be seated on the top of the shaft with her tiny legs hanging down in front. Her arms are bent at the elbow and hands held in front against her torso.

Staff with hemispherical finial and with a female figure emerging from the shaft in the central region. Her torso is the shaft itself. Her head and breasts jut out and below two legs with feet do so as well. Toes are broken off her right foot and half the left foot is missing. Her eyes are small white seed beads. Linear engraved designs embellish the figure

Armless figure with very elongated legs stands atop two shafts that are extensions of his legs. Eyes are blue seed beads with a pin in centre. She has very flat drooping breast faintly visible on chest.The shafts have a twisted barley-sugar design down most of their length but are cross hatched for the last 1/5 of their length as well as in short bands under his feet. There is a crack in the wood running up the torso from the groin region.

Staff with standing female figure as finial. She has her arms to her sides with hands held flat against either side of the belly. She appears to wear a skirt. From the point that the skirt ends the shaft of the staff begins.

Beaded staff with 3 beaded rings and a strand of beads at the top and a round beaded finial. It has geometric patterns up its shaft and on the finial.

Staff with standing male figure as finial. He holds his arms tightly and stiffly at this sides and hes feet rest on the top of the rest of the shaft. He has thick trunk-like legs and genitalia are visible. A faint waist band is visible.