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Wooden folding ruler (with brass hinge) adapted for use as a betel-lime spatula

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Carved wooden lime spatula, decorated with female figure with glass beads (red), and shell beads (red). Hunt(1981): 'Betel chewing is practised widely in Melanesia. The betal mixture consists of nut of the areca palm, fruit or leaves of the betel…

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Comb made from a single piece of wood, carved handles, bound with string made from twisted vegetable fibre.

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Wooden comb, decorated with glass beads, colours: red, blue and white. Reid (1912): 'Worn by chief.'

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Decorted with jacquirity seeds set in resin, pigs' teeth and shell beads. Shape: double cross.

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Breast ornament, made of segments of melo shell, with string for suspension in matted vegetable fibre decorated with pieces of shell.

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A band of plaited vegetable fibre decorated with shells, seeds and beads.

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Arrow-head decoration: carved (anthropomorphic) & painted (black & white). Bamboo shaft, red twine.

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Cylindrical shaped head, in stone, with 7 spikes. Mounted on a wooden shaft, topped with basket-work and red and green feathers.

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Seated human figure in brass above a hook-shaped iron handle. Symbol of a Yoruba chief.
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