World Cultures (E5221)

Fighting spear. Barbed, bamboo shaft, weighted at other end of shaft with a twisted piece of iron. Socketed.

World Cultures (E1194.b)

Nose flute, four holes bored into one side.

World Cultures (Ea10109b)

Wooden wadi or digging stick or yamstick. Roughly shaped stick with pronounced bulbous head. Handgrip roughened by chopping at it. Traces of red pigment.

World Cultures (Ea8097)

Wooden shaft with gum at either end. One end has small knob other shaped to a point. The shaft is rounded.

World Cultures (Ea9201), Woomera

Spear-thrower, plain, flat with point set edgeways

World Cultures (Ea8552)

Wooden club with 13 rows of 4 spikes around head of club

World Cultures (Ea9199)

Sword club, long and flat

World Cultures (Ea9194)

Sword club, long and flat with slightly convex surfaces. Curved blade, handle coated in gum. Split along grain.

World Cultures (E5597)

Head. 2 'cogs' one on the opposite side to the other.

World Cultures (Ea6456)

Three fragments. Pale brown feathers with the quills fixed between two pieces of bamboo bound together with fibre binding.

World Cultures (Ea10144)

Long waisted cylinder with incised carving around the waist and a handle. Snakeskin stretched over one end.

World Cultures (E4886.2), kris

Wooden scabbard (containing a kris knife- E4886.1).

World Cultures (E5532)

Woven fibre waistband in intricate patterns of red, cream and a little brown. Red fringed ends.

World Cultures (Ea9896)

Finely knotted string bag with horizontal brown, cream, black and red/brown 1.5cm wide stripes. Handle of similar material is attached to the top.

World Cultures (Ea9897)

Finely knotted string bag with a pattern in a geometric design in black on the cream coloured background. The base is rounded and there is a cream coloured handle made of the same material attached to the top of the bag.

World Cultures (Ea8588)

Gourd bottle with spatula. Mouth decorated with teeth inset in gum. Bone spatula placed in it as a stopper. The spatula has a few teeth attached to the handle. There is a split on the gourd which has been mended with three small strips of fibre gummed.

World Cultures (Ea8584)

The band is made from a piece of bark covered with bark cloth stitched at the back. The front is decorated with zig zag fibre stitches and is painted white outside the stitching, black inside the zig zag and red all down the centre of the band. The bark cloth extends approx. 33cm on either side to act as ties. Fawn and red/brown fibres hang from one side of the bark, plaited and stitched to form a thick frill. This is an armlet or a forehead band.

World Cultures (Ea8586)

Plaited canework. To protect the left wrist from the bowstring.

World Cultures (Ea7160)

Three legs formed by natural branches

World Cultures (E1223)

Black moulded hide sheath and covered hilt

World Cultures (E2423)

Conical ceremonial headdress of barkcloth on a cane framework and decorated with feathers. The base has a grass skirt.

World Cultures (E4550)

Kava bowl. Dark red wood, flat margin, wavy cord ornament, tapering handle ending in hook.

World Cultures (Ea6025)

Adze haft (no head - at least since 1977) carved with a bird head butt. Split cane wound round head, which is sharply angled.

World Cultures (Ea6026)

Adze haft (no head) carved in one piece with head bound in split cane. Carved twist on the tip.

World Cultures (Ea6027)

Adze haft (no head) with characteristic bird head butt, carved raised pattern on one side. Split cane round head.

World Cultures (Ea6028)

Adze haft (no head - since at least 1977) with sharply angled head bound with split cane. There is a carved bird on the end of the handle and a raised carving of a bird's head half way down the handle.

World Cultures (Ea6029)

Adze haft (no head) angled with split end bound with rattan cane to hold stone head. Decorative surface relief carving on hand grip end - frigate bird heads - and along top part on one side - also frigate birds. Piece missing at top, holes along edge about binding for decorative additions.

World Cultures (E4885)

Sharply angled head bound with split cane. There is carved decoration on the head and the base of the handle. There would originally have been a green stone blade.

World Cultures (Ea6000)

Axehead, greenstone, asymmetrical profile, blade with irregular shape rather than smooth curve. Blade half polished, haft half left rougher with irregular shaped or broken and worn smooth butt.

World Cultures (E5990)

Wide and rounded at the broad end, pointed at the other. Ground and grey in colour.

World Cultures (Ea10590)

Ground and polished.

World Cultures (E5998)

Axehead, light green jade, roughly ground.

World Cultures (E5999)

Axehead, light green jade, roughly ground.

World Cultures (Ea8589)

Grey axe head.

World Cultures (E5992)

Axehead, grey stone, ground.

World Cultures (Ea8591)

Black stone axehead, smoothly ground.

World Cultures (Ea8592)

Black stone axehead, smoothly ground.

World Cultures (E5994)

Axehead, black stone, ground.

World Cultures (Ea6003)

Axehead, flat dark greenstone, both ends rounded. Polished and smoothly ground.

World Cultures (Ea6016)

Axehead, long with rounded ends one wider than other. Flat dark green stone, smoothly ground.