The case displays, at the centre and right, two oval shields made of wood covered with Nguni cattle hide, mounted vertically. Nguni cattle were white with large brown spots. Each shield has two vertical lines of weaving, like ladders, where hide has been threaded in and out of the shield.

Above the shields is an Nguni cattle skull with its high and wide horns.

To the left of the shields is an elaborate tall bronze container for palm oil, over 1.5 metres tall. Its base is made of six male figures standing on a plinth in a circle looking outwards, each about 30 cm tall. Above them swells the container, also about 30 cm high, wide at the base and getting thinner towards the top, and embedded all around it are miniature figures looking outwards. Above the container is a filigree-work cylinder, about 25cm high, and above it another, egg-shaped one, about 15 cm high. Above that is a plain metal cylinder, about another 20cm tall,and surmounting the whole is a bird, another 15cm.

Between the oil container and the shields is a Benin bronze man playing a horn. He is about 50 cm high.

In the lower left corner is a taxidermied brown Aardvark with its head looking forward and to the right, about 1.4 m long including snout and tail.

Moving along the bottom of the case there are three bead necklaces. One is a simple necklace of small white beads holding a roughly square white panel with zig-zag lines of green, black, red and light blue. One is ten linked white rectangular panels with red edging, and one is of larger alternating white, red, blue, yellow and black beads.

Just behind the leftmost necklace and in front of the shields is a 55 cm carved wood and twine bow-stand, consisting of a figure of a woman with two patterned supports protruding from her head. And just behind the rightmost necklace, also just in front of the shields is a taxidermied Grey Crowned Crane, looking to the right. Its body is shades of brown with white side wing feathers and a dark grey back. The grey lightens and yellows as it continues up the neck to a delicate crest on top of the bird’s head. The head itself is white with a dark grey beak and a bright crescent of orange just behind the eyes.