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Ceremonial bark cloth pectoral. The garment is rectangular in shape with rounded bottom corners and a cut-out at the neck. A thong of bark holds the garment around the wearer's neck.The pectoral is decorated with vegetable dyed geometric patterns in yellow, red, dark blue and black. The body of a bright blue bird is attached to the front centre, head toward the bottom, wings and tail spread. Above and to either side is attached a design of blue feathers under a grouping of five long, dark brown seeds. The entire piece is edged in a line of brown, grey and white seeds, and seven single macaw ? feathers are attached at bottom. The back is undecorated.
Ceremonial bark cloth tunic. The garment is long and rectangular, open on the sides, with a rounded neck and a small V at front. Front and back are painted in circular and geometric patterns and lines coloured red, blue, yellow and black. On the chest are decorative designs of blue and yellow feathers and strands of beads. Across the shoulders on the back is a panel of densely placed coloured feathers which is edged in seeds, with feathered tassels hanging from the bottom. Each side of the tunic has a toucan sewn to the lower half, facing down with heads and large beaks freely hanging, wings and tails widely splayed. The outer edges of the tunic are decorated with a line of brown and grey seeds, and dark brown feathers hang in small groupings from the bottom hem. The inside of the garment is undecorated.
Necklace made of light brown and grey-brown seeds, with three groups of two black and one red seeds at sides and back. Piranha lower jaw with ten teeth hangs at the bottom middle, plus one dangling pendant with a "huayruro" red seed and small beads in red, black, white and turquoise.
Necklace of black seeds on string, with 16 large monkey teeth arranged between the seeds at even intervals of the lower half.
Ceremonial bark cloth costume. The garment is a vest, slightly longer in front, completely open along the sides, with narrow shoulders and a deep v-neck at front. On the front a large toucan bird is attached at centre, wings spread to the sides, beak pointing downward. Linear designs have been lightly carved into the beak. To the bird’s sides two smaller beaks are sewn to the cloth, as are groupings of feathers dyed red, yellow and brown, several with seeds at their centre. Yellow and red feathers surround the v-neck. On the back of the garments is a smaller bird, black, with a serrated yellow and black beak and a strip of red and white feathers on the tail. Large, dyed feathers splay outward from the top of the body. Portions of bird beaks surround the creature. On front and back of vest, the bark cloth is heavily painted with zigzag, ‘x’ and other motifs in brown, yellow and red. Small, oval, black and red seeds line the edges and neck of the vest, as well as a decorative strip of feathers near the bottom where additional bark cloth has been sewn to the garment, front and back. Small dyed feathers hang from quills below this strip, while long feathers dangle from the bottom of the vest. These are dyed blue yellow and orange.
Bark cloth and feather headband made of a wide strip of undecorated bark cloth, folded over. Short feathers on hide are sewn to and covering the exterior. Some areas of feather are dyed in green or red, alongside natural black and white feathers. Long feathers are sewn to the bark cloth, rising high above the headband, taller at centre, declining in height toward the sides. All are dyed blue on their fronts, with the backs of the tallest coloured gold, and shorter coloured red.
Seed necklace broken in three parts (a-c) consisting of large dark seeds alternating with groups of red and black seeds in between sections of feather quills.
Long necklace made of small grey seeds with many small hanging strings interspersed throughout. Along the sides are parts of dried birds with black, blue, green and red feathers. The bottom of the necklaces has two tufts of brown and black hair. The strings are composed of small grey beads, long cream beads, halved brown seeds, large rounded brown seeds, black feathers and two different types of snail shells.
Feathered ornament consisting of four brown and orange feathers bound together in sets of two with fibre twine; two sets of two pieces of twine hang from the ends. The two sets of feathers are then held together with a thick piece of twine. The feathers are placed in a way to create a triangle-like shape.
Bracelet consisting of a band of alternating red, black and grey seeds; large brown seeds dangle from three separate points. The bracelet has a flat top and three triangular points at the bottom. There are twisted fibre ties on each side.