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Pair of boots in sealskin (legs have lost hair), decorated with cotton embroidery in green, blue, red and purple, sole in suede-like hide, tan colour, toes pleated, red thread around tongue/sole seam. 'Made by Mrs Lane, a half-caste, for Sir William…

Carving in wood of figure group: chief seated with fly whisk, beaded crown with birds on top, below are 3 female servants standing, and at base two wives, seated. Described in Reid (1912) as a 'fetish'.

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.

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…

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

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.

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

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

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

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