Fish-hook with pearl shell shank, bone barb, twisted bast lashings and white feather beard: Polynesian, Tuvalu

Fish-hook with pearl shell shank, bone barb, twisted bast lashings and white feather beard: Polynesian, Tuvalu

Tattooing implement comprising a spindle of bone inserted at right angles in a wooden handle and lashed with bast: Polynesian, Samoa

Headdress or mask representing a bush cow, carved wood with horns and open mouth painted with white pigment on outside and red pigment on inside of mouth. Long shredded bast fibres attached to headdress, worn horizontally on top of the head: Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yola Province, Mumuye people, early 20th century

Bird dart with a notched reed shaft and head of terebra shell lashed on with bast fibre: Melanesia, Vanuatu, Ambrym (Ambrim), late 19th century