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A large shadow puppet of a Chinese man. Wearing an elaborate ceremonial hat once red, green, yellow, and pink, now colours faded in most areas. Wearing long oriental style robes with floral decoration on half of the body on the front. Large green sleeves edged with pink. Has black high heeled shoes. Plastic rivets on shoulders, elbows, hands, and knees. One right angled black water buffalo horn stick pointed downwards connected to the hat end with black string. One black horn stick on each hand.
A large shadow puppet of a male Chinese warrior with a black chin beard and a long black moustache. Floral warrior hat. Wearing long sleeved floral robes with matching trousers. Flowers are pink and yellow with green leaves. Edges of sleeves and trouser bottoms are black as are his shoes. Plastic rivets at shoulders, elbows, hands, hips, and knees. One handling stick is at an angle facing down tied to the ear and the hat.
Small white matching jacket (part a) and pants (part b). The white jacket has a side opening with frog closures and purple trim around the collar, sleeves and bottom hem. The white pants have a wide waistband and straight pant legs. There is a floral motif in green stitching and purple trim around the bottom of the legs.
A shadow puppet fragment of a male head with a white face, a white beard, an elongated white bald head and red and black detailing.
A shadow puppet of a young Chinese man with elegant smooth features and long black hair with a round green, yellow, and red hat. Wearing a floral robe of red, yellow, green, pink, and light brown with trousers to match, and black sandals. Joined in the shoulder, elbow, waist, hips, hands, and fingers with plastic rivets on the arm parts, and hide rivets on the body. Black horn bent at right angle following length of hair connected to sideburn with black string.
A shadow puppet of a Chinese man with a wrinkled face, short black hair, and a long moustache. Wearing a red hat with yellow plumes on the back and two flowers. Wearing black high cut Manchu laced boots and intricate floral robes with trousers to match. Three horn handling sticks, one at the back of the head bending downwards at a right angle, tied with black string, and one at each hand tied also with black string. Plastic rivets connect parts, shoulder, elbows, hands, waist, and hips. One boot shows completely while with the other, only the foot appears from under the long robes.
A flat open-work brass piece with a punched design. The base of the piece is curved. From the base to the top, the sides curve inward, tapering to cloud shapes, and one central hole at the top. Central design consists of four Chinese script characters, flanked by four dragons, two on either side. The translation from the top down is red, heart, loyalty, and virtue.
Daoist album leaf. Painting depicting Xu Xun and the iron pillar restraining drifters. Three figures with red hair and mallots are depicted along with a crowd of people with objects hidden from view hanging from yokes that are slung over their shoulders, all looking at what appears to be burning buildings, and a seated figure in yellow and blue robes surrounded by several warriors with swords and sticks. There are several building roofs surrounded by clouds in the background. A cylindrical object in the foreground has multicoloured flames emerging from the top and is surrounded by several building roofs partially obscured by clouds with a wall at the very front. The painting is mounted on off-white damask-patterned silk on paper.
Seal carved from one piece of brown soapstone with a blank seal surface. The box-shaped base is surmounted by a carved "temple dog."
A fan of woven straw in twill weave, shaped like an inverted heart, with a tubular bamboo handle that has a split 10.8 cm. long to allow for the insertion of the fan. The handle is painted (?) with a mottled brown pattern, perforated near the butt end and held in place with a nail. The straw is purple, blue-green, and natural colours, woven in geometric design, finished with a band of braided straw sewn with unspun linen (?) thread around each side.