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31. Arrows

Description:: Arrows with metal points and wooden shafts used for hunting large game; origin Mbuti people of the Ituri rainforest.

32. Bundle of arrows

Bundle of arrows

Description:: Bundle of wooden arrows wrapped with a piece of raffia, seven with metal tips, fourteen in all; end of one is notched with traces of poison; origin Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Mbuti people.

33. Stone ashtray

Description:: Red, black, and greenish-brown stone ashtray, made for tourists, origin West Africa.

34. Metal ashtray

Description:: Metal ashtray in the shape of a goblet; gold leaf design stenciled around the upper edge; origin North Africa.

35. Soapstone ashtrays

Soapstone ashtrays

Description:: Two shallow heart-shaped soapstone ashtrays with flat bases and nearly identical sizes.

36. Ebony ashtray

Date:: 1951,1989
Description:: Ebony ashtray that is a cross-section of a tree trunk; three grooves for cigarettes, etc., center is circular with grooves; inscribed on bottom: AS_H _GATHON"; origin Uganda.

37. Atubwa (wooden bowl)

Atubwa (wooden bowl)

Date:: 1951,1989
Description:: Wooden bowl (atubwa); origin Turkana people of Kenya.

38. Atubwa (wooden bowl)

Atubwa (wooden bowl)

Date:: 1951,1989
Description:: Wooden bowl (atubwa) with two pieces of metal-like staples on one side; bowl is oval in shape, rounded on the bottom; origin Turkana people of Kenya.

39. Atubwa

Date:: 1951,1989
Description:: Wooden bowl (atubwa); origin Turkana people of Kenya.

40. Skin bag

Date:: 1951,1989
Description:: Skin key patch made for sale by inmates of Nairobi prison; brown fur on one side, metal loop and snap for closures.