From my father's collection, 3 & 4

[For explanation see yesterday's blip]

Both items are about 9ins./28cm in length.

On the left, an ivory bark pounder from central Africa such as are used by the Mbuti people to make bark cloth.
"To make barkcloth, a traditional form of clothing, Mbuti men collect pieces of the inner bark of fig trees, and pound them until they are thin and pliable. Mbuti women decorate the surfaces with intricate designs, using twigs and their fingers to apply dyes made from plant saps and charcoal powder."
The decorations  applied to the cloth are abstract patterns that reflect the forest environment.
The stripped trees are wrapped in banana skins so that they regenerate. Nothing is wasted or destroyed in the forest.


I blipped some bark cloth a couple of years ago here.
More about Mbuti barkcloth here.
And if you have a few minutes to spare I recommend watching this moving short film about the relationship between the Mbuti and the forest.


The object on the right I know much less about. It's a bottle made from some sort of skin and decorated with glued-on paper patterns. The design is typically Moorish so I assume it may be North African. There's one very similar image on the 'net but without any date or provenance so no clues there. 
A boiled sweet (as my Russian history teacher used to say) for anyone who can tell me more about it.