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A narrow woven mat from the Banks Island that has incorporated a designed using purple-red dyed fibre. The edges are frayed

A woven mat where parts have been dyed purple-red to create stripes and geometric patterns, with an open weave at the ends

A wooden war club with a handle and a pointed tip. Below the tip are three protrusions. A fourth has been lost. Above the protrustions to the tip are several parallel indents coloured orange.

A Torres Island laplap knife made of a thin light wood. The handle has carved decoration around the edge

A wooden laplap knife with a looped handle and raised curved bars in the middle. The blade has a faint drawing of a human figure.

A light wood hair comb. The wood is visibly damaged. One tooth of the comb has been broken off.

An armlet made of dark fibre. Beads in white, black, blue, red and green have been used to create geometric patterns by weaving them into the fibre

String from Vanua Lava, Banks Islands, made of brown fibre

Two rounded dark stone hand tools from the island of Ambae in Vanuatu