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1. Axe

Museum number:: 11-37158
Culture or time period:: Papuan
Object class:: Axes (tools)
Function:: 1.9 Multiple Utility
Collector:: Joseph H. Travers
Collection place:: Mount Hagen Area, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

2. Bag

Museum number:: 11-37142
Culture or time period:: Papuan
Object class:: Bags (generic containers)
Function:: 1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
Collector:: Joseph H. Travers
Collection place:: Kaup village, West Sepik, Sepik Plains

3. Bead and teeth necklace

Museum number:: 11-37124
Culture or time period:: New Guinea, Papua Island
Object class:: Bead necklaces and Necklaces
Function:: 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Collector:: Joseph H. Travers
Collection place:: New Guinea, Melanesia

4. Coconut shell basket, incised

Museum number:: 11-37138
Culture or time period:: New Guinea, Papua Island
Function:: 1.5 Household
Collector:: Joseph H. Travers
Collection place:: New Guinea, Melanesia

5. Coconut shell bowl, incised and painted

Museum number:: 11-37128
Culture or time period:: New Guinea, Papua Island
Object class:: Bowls (vessels)
Function:: 1.5 Household
Collector:: Joseph H. Travers
Collection place:: New Guinea, Melanesia

6. Comb, bamboo

Museum number:: 11-37130
Culture or time period:: New Guinea, Papua Island
Object class:: Combs (grooming tools)
Function:: 1.8 Toilet Articles
Collector:: Joseph H. Travers
Collection place:: New Guinea, Melanesia

7. Dagger of cassowary bone, incised

Museum number:: 11-37123
Culture or time period:: New Guinea, Papua Island
Function:: 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Collector:: Joseph H. Travers
Collection place:: New Guinea, Melanesia
Taxon:: Casuarius

8. Drum

Museum number:: 11-37118a
Culture or time period:: New Guinea, Papua Island
Object class:: Drums (membranophones)
Function:: 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Collector:: Richard F. Salisbury
Collection place:: New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Islands Region
Collection date:: 1961

9. Fiber bag

Museum number:: 11-37137
Culture or time period:: New Guinea, Papua Island
Object class:: Bags (generic containers)
Function:: 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Collector:: Joseph H. Travers
Collection place:: Buka Island, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Islands Region

10. Grass skirt, fiber, shells, beads, seeds, teeth

Museum number:: 11-37139
Culture or time period:: New Guinea, Papua Island
Object class:: Beads (pierced objects) and Skirts (garments)
Function:: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Collector:: Joseph H. Travers
Collection place:: New Guinea, Melanesia