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Two cylindrical thorn needles (parts a and b). Both are thin and black. Bottom ends are pointed, top ends are flattened and have one small hole drilled into them. Tips of the flattened ends are pointed. Smallest needle (part a) has loop of cotton thread in the eye of the needle, largest needle (part b) has no cotton thread.
Complete sling. Cradle has a long split in the centre. Top half of the cradle, divided by the split, is white and the bottom half is dark brown. Tapering ends of the cradle have checkerboard patterns of white and dark brown. Handles are white and braided. First sections of the braids, closest to the cradle, have dark brown diamond designs on them. Rest of braids are plain white. Right handle ends with a brown thumb loop.
Panel fragment from a mantle or shawl. Irregularly shaped with vertical stripe design across entire surface. Alternating columns of brown and light blue. Brown columns darken, started as brown-grey and ending in dark brown, towards right side of fragment. Blue columns have white interior borders and white diamond outlines throughout. Diamond designs are stitched onto fragment.
Fragment of a cloth. Irregularly shaped with straight top, left and right edges and a diagonal bottom edge that shortens the right side. Background is brown with white concentric diamond designs throughout. Diamond lines are done in stepped pattern. Textile stitched to grey coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Fragment of a sling. Cradle is brown and has a central split with a diamond pattern on either side. Diamonds alternate between plain and concentric. All are outlined in black. Tapering sides have vertical stripes, done in black and dark brown. Right handle has alternating pattern of light brown and black diamonds across entire surface. Left handle is missing.
Fragment of a sling. Consists of cradle and small section of right handle. Cradle has design of five zoomorphic figures, over a plain background, done in geometric style. Figures have two legs and feet, an oval eye and bulbous head. Three figures and their backgrounds on right side alternate between red and brown. Figures on left side appear unfinished. They are outlined in dark brown and missing their eyes. Both are on brown backgrounds. Entire back of cradle is coloured light brown. Left tapering section is light brown, right tapering section is red. Both sections have transverse stripes done in dark brown and brown. Portion of right handle is brown with concentric diamond pattern throughout. Diamonds done in red and dark brown. Thick light brown strands extend from where the left handle would be.
Fragment of a mantle or shroud. Rectangular in shape and made up of two panels with different patterns. First panel, on left side, has vertical stripe pattern across surface. Stripes alternate between light blue-grey and light grey-brown. Designs on blue stripes are geometric and done in dark blue. Designs on light grey-brown stripes are diagonal rows with alternating patterns of interlocking snakes and waves. Motifs coloured dark brown, and snakes are done in an abstract geometric style. Second panel, on right side, is plain light grey-brown. Panels stitched together with same coloured thread.
Fragment of a coarse cloth. Irregularly shaped with rectangular main body and fraying triangles extending from the left and right sides. Main body rectangle coloured white, trimmed in brown, with interior designs of stepped pyramids, zigzags and diamonds. Patterns done in light and dark brown. Frayed attachments on the left and right sides of the rectangle are patterned with alternating white and brown yarns, creating a small checkered design.
Opened out fragment of a tubular case. Golden brown textile worked over thin brown-black reeds. Four rows of designs across entire surface. Done in red, black, white, olive green and dark grey. First row has three small step designs with bordered squares inside them. Second row has a bird-like creature and other zoomorphic figures. Third and fourth rows have snake-like figures. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Fragment of a sling. Consists of part of the cradle and part of the left handle. Portion of cradle is light brown and has a two-toed zoomorphic figure, outlined in dark brown with a light red interior. Tapering section, where cradle meets handle, has vertical stripes and a repeating triangle pattern. Stripes and pattern done in light brown, dark brown and light red. Handle splits in two where it meets the cradle before converging again and becoming a thick rectangle. Rectangle and split strands covered in concentric diamond pattern. Done in red, light brown and dark brown.