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Bow, wood covered with bark strips, used in hunting: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century
Bowl, folded bark forming square bowl with wooden handles secured with cord: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century
Tinder box, part of fire-making kit, cylindrical wooden vessel with bark wrappings and cord for attached steel, used to carry tinder: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century
Sheath for knife (makiri), wood with carved abstract designs, bound with cherry bark strips and with blue textile loop for suspending from belt: Japan, Hokkaido, Biratori, Ainu, 19th century
Knife sheath with attached boat-shaped toggle, wood with carved abstract designs, bound with cherry bark strips: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century
Sheath for knife (makiri), wood with carved abstract designs, bound with cherry bark strips and with cord loop for suspending from belt: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th century
Water can or roggan of birch bark sewn with goose quill: North America, Canada, Saskatchewan or Alberta, Athapaskan
Sling or band for carrying children, made by women from the bark of Melochia velutina, and worn like a sash over one shoulder: Andamanese
Bieri (guardian figure) of carved hardwood with black oily patina, male bust with plain straight torso and arms akimbo on cylindrical base, fitting as stopper in cylindrical reliquary box of blackened bark, used to contain ancestral bones: Central Africa, Gabon, Middle Ogowe River, Fang people, late 19th to early 20th century
Piece of raw bark, for barkcloth: Africa, Southern Africa, Zambia, Awemba Country, early 20th century
Skirt of bark fibre and woven palm fibre in geometric patterns: Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kuba people, early 20th century
Length of barkcloth: Africa, South Africa, near Yambeyan River, north of Transvaal, mid-late 19th century
Circle of fibre rope with a net of bark fibre attached, used for fishing and securing boats: Southern Africa, Botswana, Lake Ngami area
Length of tree bark, from which barkcloth is made: Africa, Eastern Africa, Malawi, mid-late 19th century
Tree bark from which poison is extracted: Africa, Eastern Africa, Malawi, Lake Malawi, mid 19th century