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Plain weave palm fibre tear-drop shaped fan with handle wrapped in purple and pink yarn. Plaited edging sewn on with running stitch. Pink yarn in a loose crossing pattern over plaited edging. Horizontal rows of orange and black yarn across fan, design from top: three orange ovals, five black ovals, five orange squares, six black squares, five orange squares, and five black ovals. Twisted blue, purple and yellow cord from base of handle has an attached tassel of blue, green, red, and white.
Interior surface of round gourd covered in beeswax and then decorated with beads. Design consists of eight yellow, blue, red, and green circles, at centre bottom, four circles of interlocking green and yellow diamonds. Two rows of red for border. Sides have four yellow, red, and black double headed frontal birds with wings extended to sides, rounded body, and triangular tail between straight legs. Opposing animals between birds at base: two four-legged red reptiles with black split tongues, red animal heads with orange whiskers, one has orange horns and the other has one light red ear. Small red and orange snake with black split tongue next to animal head with orange horns. Between birds at rim, there are two red human figures one with a dog? One orange dog. All figures on blue ground. Band of green at rim, then one row of black bordered by yellow.
Central stick, glued to circular base, has two cross sticks attached with yarn. Two metal hoops on either side of central stick are wrapped in blue and pink yarn and have white feathers at each end. Alternating blue and pink yarn wrapped around base. Central stick wrapped in yellow, at first cross blue, pink and purple yarn form a diamond, cross stick ends wrapped in blue before tassels. At second cross stick blue, light blue, yellow and brown yarn form a diamond, ends wrapped in blue before tassels. End of central stick wrapped in blue before tassel.
One piece square plain woven bag folded in half has three vertical rows of dark brown wool woven into warp at each end on both sides; sewn at sides with dark brown wool using a v shaped diagonal running stitch or stroke stitch; dark brown wool in cross knit loop stitch along upper edge. The design is identical on both sides and consists of an eight pointed star with four blue lines extending from centre, black and light blue stitches frame star. The border has a green herringbone stitches over middle of vertical brown warps; geometric linear pattern in pink called fret design. Strap is a separate plain woven band, two stripes of dark brown wool are woven into the warp. The strap ends are twisted together and knotted at apex opposite ends are sewn to upper corners of bag.
Flat square folded bag with cross stitched red and blue diagonal zigzag design; yellow cross knit loop stitch border on top and sides. There are green, orange and red pompoms attached to the lower corner on the left by red and black twisted yarn; green and orange pompom attached with red twisted yarn to lower corner on right. The woven strap is braided at apex; it has two equidistant black bands orange-pink ground, each end sewn with pink yarn to upper corners of bag.
Flat square folded bag with cross stitch design has woven shoulder strap with ends twisted and tied at apex, other ends stitched to each corner at open end of bag; yellow cross knit loop stitch finish on sides and at open end of bag. Two pompoms, pink and blue, are attached to each lower corner. Design on red ground consists of vertical blue lines with chevrons, alternating direction on each line, and diamonds with yellow crosses. Strap is dark blue with two solid pink vertical lines.
Small flat square bag with long woven shoulder strap with yellow and red horizontal stripes. The bag consists of one flat piece of material folded in half and stitched together along each side with a cross knit loop stitch, similar stitch used to finish top edges. The design is of repeating interlocking diamonds with interior diamonds bordered by v forms entirely cover material using a continuous running stitch; slight variations occur in colour and pattern with the interior diamonds. Red and green pompoms are tied to each bottom corner. Strap, twisted and tied at apex, ends sewn to each corner at open end of bag; design is a series of horizontal lines bordered on both sides by solid line.
Small square folded bag with woven strap, twisted and tied at apex. Two double pompoms attached to each lower corner by twisted yarn. The edging on three sides is in blue cross knit loop stitch. The central design is on a red ground and is composed of repeating paired pattern of angular eight pointed star with interior design of four lines, pointed in centre and curled at ends, placed end to end around a square with a central cross. Along the centre are two, eight pointed flowers each having four, two leaf stems with diamond flowers, projecting in each cardinal direction; partial flowers and stems repeated at edges; each face has a different border design. Strap has alternating red and white cross and x design with a green border; folded in half along length; ends stitched to upper corners of bag.
Hat composed of braided strips of palm leaf sewn together with red cloth folded over the rim and stitched in place. Two strips of red cloth run over the crown in a cross shape with mutlicoloured yarn ornamenting the top, and four smaller red fabric crosses placed around the brim. A beaded band of orange, green, blue and yellow flowers on yellow with black borders is tied with blue cord around the base of the crown from which extend seven groups of white feathers. The feathers rest on the brim and are joined with lengths of orange cord, the ends, placed behind the beaded band, are knotted and extend beyond the band at the top. Along the underside of the rim are 15 beaded floral square tassels with rectangular extensions. A chin strap of blue woven band with yellow horizontal stripes has twisted and knotted ends with floral beaded square tassels attached.
Five small rounded gourds joined together with lengths of twisted palm fibre(?), cord and yarn. Each gourd is pierced at sides near top, cord is inserted and knotted, gourd with red yarn passes through without being knotted. Each gourd has small round hole at top, and two have stoppers (parts a and d). Two undecorated gourds (parts d and e), while remaining three have external decorations: 1) deer skin, some hair remains (part a); 2) grid pattern created by wrapping orange- pink, blue, yellow and red yarn horizontally and vertically (part b); 3) grey- brown cloth with red cross stitching in eight pointed star, top and sides sewn with blue yarn, tassels at each lower corner (part c).