Figure

Figure with large bird's head, seated on base. Long, pointed beak, hands clasped over stomach. Clay molded across top of head, down sides of face, down center of face to point between eyes. Inlaid with nassa shells and a few tufts of human hair at top (Quite a bit of the clay and shell inlay is broken off.) Cowrie shell eyes, inlaid in clay on convex projections three-pointed star-like decorations. Cowrie shells on upper arms, front and back (two missing).

Twisted fiber (purple and natural) in ears, in twelve holes down front of beak and around wrists. Strings of seed (large bumpy yellowish and small white) in ears (one has come off and is stored with figure), and around neck. Bunch of feathers near tip of beak, twisted fiber with tassels knotted through tip itself. On back of bird head, a small human head with clay molded over top (with a few bits of hair imbedded in it), cowrie shell eyes (one missing, socket red), two pieces of twisted fiber through nose. Eight carved vertebrae. Black, with white and some red.