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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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