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Human figure, in wood and painted black, eyes made of white beads, male - hand on penis.

Wooden drum with handle. Toothed, circular, spiral and triangular carvings, decorated with red, white and black pigment, with head in hide (wallaby?).

Wooden bowman's shield, decorated with carvings of 'grotesque' human faces, in white and brown paint.

Wooden house board, carved and painted in red, white and black, motif: scroll pattern and dolphins.

Wooden house board, carved and painted in red, white and black, motif: waves, scrolls and anthropomorphic.

Wooden board, carved in relief and painted in red and black, motif: scroll patterns and stylised human heads.

One of two spatulae made from the limb bones of cassowary. Decoration: dots & interlocking step pattern in relief, ornamented with seeds, shells, crab claws, teeth and red cloth.

Carved wooden human figure, female, standing on a stool, decorated with zigzag, wavy and spiral carvings filled with lime.

Carved male figure, seated on a stool, in wood and decorated with zigzag, wavy and spiral carvings filled with lime. Hunt, 1981, p11, 'Free-standing sculpture from South-East New Guinea is rare and its function unknown. This figure and 59 closely…

Quiver, wood covered in leather and decorated with black and brown strips of leather. Contains 7 poisoned arrows, shafts of bamboo, barbed points in iron.