The traditional material culture of the Wola contains almost 200 individually named items and uses 255 different raw materials (Hardy and Sillitoe 2003; Sillitoe 1988). Items can be divided into six categories (Sillitoe 1988); tools, weapons, consumption utensils, clothing, finery and self-decoration and musical instruments while raw materials fall into the following categories (Table 1).
| Raw material category | Numbers of items and varieties in category |
|---|---|
| Trees and shrubs | 94 |
| Palms and pandans | 12 |
| Vines and climbers | 16 |
| Ferns | 8 |
| Bamboos and canes | 10 |
| Grasses and herbs | 23 |
| Mosses | 5 |
| Fungi | 1 |
| Mammals | 23 |
| Birds | 31 |
| Insects | 3 |
| Fish and reptiles | 3 |
| Sea shells | 8 |
| Rocks, stone, soils | 13 |
| Other, miscellaneous | 5 |
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