Long spear with carved bone head. The edges of the head have four barbs each, staggered, along the sides. Head is bound to a narrow wooden shaft with string and wax. The convex side has remnants of a light green dye over the middle half of the head. The wooden shaft is carved into diagonal patter...

Golden, bronze and chocolate-brown cassowary feathers are attached at the base to a cone of bees wax adorned with coix seeds. The base of the feathers emerge from the point of the cone and are tied together with sago leaf fibres and bast string which are attached to a 7cm-long thin, pointed piece...

Headdress made of Bird of Paradise feathers, ranging in colour from gold through bronze to dark brown, each tied to a braided band of cotton. The base of the feathers are squeezed together in sets of approximately 20 and folded over the bottom string and through two loops at the back of the braid...

Ornament made of the feature feathers of a Bird of Paradise, as well its breast feathers, still attached to the skin. Two sets of long, fine, light brown feathers hang from the skin of the throat, which is covered in shorter, dark brown feathers. The bird’s lower beak is folded over and resting w...

Penis sheath made of a straight bottle gourd. ‘Part a’ has pin-prick dots burned to form vertical and horizontal ‘lines’ on the bottom half. A band of bees wax encircles the sheath above this patterning over the top of a clean break, connecting it to the section above which is lighter in colour a...

Penis sheath. A curving, tapering bottle gourd. The thinner end is sealed.

Penis sheath. An unadorned bottle gourd, wide at open end, with a flat knob at the opposite thin end. Part b is a large chip taken out of the top rim of the sheath. Adjacent to this hole is a broken but attached flap of gourd.

Penis sheath. A slightly curved, undecorated bottle gourd.

Penis sheath made of a curving, unadorned bottle gourd, with scorch marks in spots along the surface. The gourd is cracked at the wide, open end with one edge overlapping the other.

Penis sheath. A conical bottle gourd has been broken at the open end and folded inward to create an opening that fits inside a thick, woven loop of rattan. Two white strings have been woven into and around the band, and a synthetic line with several knots is attached at one end. A whitish paper-l...