A ruddy-brown grass skirt consisting of intermingled tight braids and open strips of sago leaf attached to a thicker braid waistband. At one end is a loop, at the other end a tie - two long braids are knotted together in the middle and again towards their ends out of which long tufts of unbraided...
Grass skirt made of strips of sago leaf. The colour of the sago leaf strips varies from shades of brown to yellow. The front has two layers with a shorter section of straight strips attached to the waistband in five separate sections sitting in front of longer plaits that curl and fray at the bot...
Grass skirt consisting of long ruddy-brown blades of sago leaf attached to a broad, woven waistband of 5 rows and 24 columns, alternating between yellow-brown and dark brown fibres with remnants of red ochre. Four long tassels of tight braids drape from the top of the belt; two with cockatoo fea...
Grass skirt of ruddy-brown strips of sago leaf attached to a broad waistband of dark brown and tan fibres interwoven with braids of sago leaf. The left end of the belt is a thick, neat loop; the right end has two braided ties, the top being twice the width of the lower. Three thick tassels protru...
Grass skirt consisting of loose strands of sago leaf attached to a waistband. The waistband features three rows and seventeen columns of alternating dark brown and yellow-brown woven plant fibres bordered by braids of ruddy-brown sago leaf. Three thick tassels of knotted sago leaf strips protrude...
Grass skirt made of long, ruddy-brown, blades of sago leaf. A shorter layer, approximately 18cm, sits atop a longer, of approximately 28cm long. The waistband is wider in the middle, with seven rectanglular patterned sections of tan and brown plant fibre. Above this is a patterned cord of ruddy-...
Grass skirt made of braided sago leaf. Hundreds of small, tight braids are attached to two thicker braids that form the waist band. The braids on one half of the skirt are several centimetres shorter than on the other. A slight change of colour, in vertical stripes, can be detected in the braids...
Bottom band of naturally coloured grass in zigzag pattern bordered by grass on a strip of green/red/green, creating an effect of staggered triangles (lower with vertex up, upper with vertex down). Central band has a "meander" pattern. 2 bands of parallelogram shapes in natural grass on green and ...
Gambrel brownware bowl with red slip interior and incised decoration around sides. The incised decoration is of a repeating, geometric "X/O" motif, and there are negative painted dots in the 10 cm gap between the ends of the incised panel decoration. There are remnants of red and cream-coloured p...
Flaring gambrel brownware bowl with red slipped interior and incised decoration on the exterior. The decoration consists of four incised panels depicting stylized feline faces and bodies. In the two body panels there are two “eye of god" motifs between the legs. There is a 11 cm gap between the b...