World Cultures (Ea9209)

Mat or apron made of soft basket work. Bound at top edge with strings at either side.

World Cultures (Ea9210)

Bag of knotted string with two handles

World Cultures (Ea9219)

Short handle made in one with wide flat blade. Blade slightly tapered and is the shape of a spatula. Richly carved towards the base. Dark colour wood. Carving probbaly the bird's head motif. The carving a curvilinear scroll design from a stylised head of the frigate bird with zig zag designs at each end.

World Cultures (Ea9220)

Black wood, oblong shape with one end slightly wider at one end, decorated with punched holes around the edges and between these holes there is a carved 'stem' ending on either side in the centre of the spatula in a carved snake motif.

World Cultures (Ea9222)

There is a long flat blade made in one piece with the handle which is carved into serrations and triangles at the edges. Yam stick

World Cultures (Ea9223)

There is a long flat blade made in one piece with the handle which is carved into serrations and triangles at the edges. Yam stick

World Cultures (Ea9225)

Paddle shaped object made of plain wood with a protruding point at the handle.

World Cultures (Ea9227a)

Wooden pestle with flat knob at one end. For betel nut

World Cultures (Ea9227b)

Tall and hollowed with turned base. For betel nut.

World Cultures (Ea9232)

Stone head missing (1977), socket for head held on to shaft with three bands of woven cane. The stone head was originally bound on to the socket with two bands of woven cane and their binding is still in place. The socket is split in half. The top end of the shaft is damaged.

World Cultures (Ea9231)

White wood, with black design

World Cultures (Ea9261a)

Matwork grass bag with elaborate stripes in black with tassles and strips of reed and grass

World Cultures (Ea9261b)

Matwork grass bag with elaborate stripes in black with tassles and strips of reed and grass

World Cultures (Ea9261d)

Woven bag with decorative black geometric bands across it and decorative tassels all round

World Cultures (Ea9261c)

Woven skirt with black decorative band across it and strips of fibre and tassels and plaited waist belt. a and b are missing

World Cultures (Ea9262.a)

Red/brown grass skirt on waist band of plaited fibre.

World Cultures (Ea9262.c)

Grass skirt on waist band. The lengths of fibre were fitted onto the waist band in groups, all red brown in colour but some groups have horizontal 3cm wide dark brown painted strips on them for decoration.

World Cultures (Ea9262.b)

Fine fibre strands bound to a 1 cm wide fibre band at the top. The whole is a red brown colour. Probably these fibres were bound on to the band in bunches of lighter and darker shades but the whole was faded by 1977 and it has become very fragile.

World Cultures (Ea9262.d)

Red/brown grass skirt on waist band of plaited fibre. There is one length of dark brown fibre with lighter brown on either side and the rest of the skirt is formed from groups of red and brown strips of fibre fixed alternately to the waist band.

World Cultures (Ea9263)

Cone shaped, drawn in at 4 corners with plaited grass

World Cultures (Ea9265)

A small sling stone with pointed ends, dark and pitted

World Cultures (Ea9266)

Small dark stone, flattened but globular. Sling stone?

World Cultures (Ea9267)

Shell necklace consisting of a string of pink shell pieces and large white round shell hanging from it, pierced through the middle.

World Cultures (Ea9268)

Cassowary bone, one end complete the other missing. The centre of the shaft is split in half to reveal the centre. One end is carved into a point. At complete end holes are pireced and strung with red, blue and white beads.

World Cultures (Ea9269)

Two boar's tusks bound together with plaited cord.

World Cultures (Ea9275)

World Cultures (Ea9277), Herbertson, Queensland

Two rows of off-white/grey seeds, threaded and mounted on a cord base.

World Cultures (Ea9278)

Two rows of grey seeds sewn together and attached to a fibre band. 17 rows of seeds each containing approx. 24 seeds are attached to the seed band and dangle down for decoration. There are fibre tie strings on either end of the band. With strings of seeds hanging down from the centre. An armlet or forehead ornament.

World Cultures (Ea9279)

Personal adornment.

World Cultures (Ea9282)

Each seed is half a pod threaded on to fibre. Seeds are dark brown in colour.

World Cultures (Ea9284.a)

Made by carving one end for a handle and splitting the other end into slivers and binding with fibre the part where the handle joins the 'teeth'. 10 silvers.

World Cultures (Ea9284.b)

Made by carving one end for a handle and splitting the other end into slivers and binding with fibre the part where the handle joins the 'teeth'. 10 silvers.

World Cultures (Ea9284.c)

Made by carving one end for a handle and splitting the other end into slivers and binding with fibre the part where the handle joins the 'teeth'. 11 silvers.

World Cultures (Ea9286)

Crescentric, decoration of small drilled dots along upper edge, with loop coming down in centre, double row on one side, single row other. Pierced at horns to take fibre string. One hole broken and drilled lower down.

World Cultures (Ea9287)

Obsidian blade. Handle made from resin. Decorated with incised pattern painted dark brown and with white lime in lines.

World Cultures (Ea9290)

Pointed at each end, curved in shape.

World Cultures (Ea10127)

Round hanging basket made from cane. Three fibre cords attached to the top to form a single hanging cord.

World Cultures (Ea10353.a)

Smooth white and cut through spiral join. On one of protrusions there is a hole thourgh which are attached 4 black nuts/berries with small mother of pearl discs attached. Strung around the end is a strand made up of small red glass beads.

World Cultures (Ea10353.b)

Smooth white broken at spiral joint, yellowish in colour.

World Cultures (Ea10391)

a- coloured throughout with blue/grey dye b- coloured with pink and brown pattern (narrow cloth) - the design consists of double black lines in between these are either black dots or black lines