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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 11-44099, described as grass carrying basket; conical carrying basket (miniaturized for tourist trade) woven of yellow and natural colored grass in repeating bands. tapers to rounded point at one end. upper edge finished with twine sewn with a blanket stitch around edge and double cords for carrying.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 11-44100, described as woven basket or bowl made from pandamas leaf is natural, orange and brown. base woven with 2 bands of natural and orange; side woven with natural then brown band and finishes with 2 rows of natural. basket foundation coils are wrapped rice woven, then joined to the next coil at specific points thus forming first quadrants then 1/8's then sixteenths, forming a sort of open work pattern.

Hearst Museum object titled Boomerang, accession number 11-44102, described as hand carved, wooden boomerang decorated with 4 kangaroos on a mottled ground on one side.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl and music sticks, accession number 11-44101a-c, described as wooden bowl with 2 music sticks; hand carved and decorated aboriginal bowl (a) and 2 music sticks (b and c) which accompany it. bowl is oblong and narrow, roughly carved, decorated on outer surface with 5 wood-burned vertical lines, horizontal curved lines and straight lines on one end. music sticks have 2 tapered ends and wood burned designs composed of dots, curved lines and rings.