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Basket (a) that has a wide, open weaving technique of horizontal plant leaves and vertical bamboo on the sides, a smaller weave of only bamboo at the bottom, and a very tight weave of bamboo strips at the top. An insert (b) of woven bamboo sits inside the bottom of the basket. There are two plant fibre tassels attached to the sides of the basket, and four that hang from the bottom of the basket. A design of vertical lines has been burnt into the border as well as the top row of the wide open weaving section. A monkey skull has been affixed to one side of the basket with its nose facing the bottom of the basket, and it has been painted white underneath the eye sockets. There are two loops on the reverse side, and one on the inside of the basket, likely for attaching straps.
Long spear that is pointed at both ends. One end is has long strands of red then black hair. Fibre cording is wrapped around the end.
A brown woven hat that has a coiled band going along the top from the front to the back. Red-brown hair is erect at the front with a tail-like effect at the back. The hat is mainly brown with yellow stripes. String is attached to both sides.
Long multi-strand orange coloured beaded necklace. Each end has a woven fibre section. At one end of the fibre section there is a metal disk and at the other, is a woven fibre loop. At each end of the orange beaded strands are a series of larger dark blue, light orange, red and light blue beads.
Rectangular, dark green cotton loincloth with numerous vertical and horizontal rows of shells. There is a cylindrical shape piece of wood running through the top edge with thin brown twine holding the wood in place. The cloth is undecorated on the underside.
A piece which has wood sticks attached to each other with metal wire. The wood sticks are curved around to make a conical-like shape with one end larger than the other and then tapering down to a smaller end. The piece is covered with seventeen horizontal rows of cowrie shells and one vertical row of cowrie shells at the larger end.
Belt made of between twenty and twenty-seven strings of predominately red beads. Strands are strung through ten vertical bone strips, breaking the strands into nine sections--sections on the ends have the fewest strands, with progressively more being added to each section moving towards the central section, making the belt wider in the middle than at the extremities. Ends are tied off with brown string, one end forming a loop, the other having a circular piece of bone attached to it.
Orange, cotton bag made of two rectangular pieces of hand woven cloth machine sewn together at the bottom with a fringe. Wide band is sewn on the sides and extends to form the strap. Decorated with hand embroidered stylized birds, butterfly, elephant and flower like forms is interspersed with various geometric designs of which the diamond shape is most prevalent on this bag; designs in light orange, white, green and red. Some of the design has been woven into the fabric.
Long rectangular shawl made of three rectangular strips of hand woven black cotton cloth machine stitched together to make one large cloth. There are stylized designs hand embroidered in darning stitch, depicting various sizes of elephant, butterfly, bird and flower-like forms in purple, white, orange and green. Decorative pulled thread open-work border at each end.
Hand-woven cotton belt decorated with a geometric design. The pattern consists of diamond shapes of different sizes divided by rows of plain bands of colours. A long fringe of twisted red cotton thread is left on each end. At one end this fringe has been partly broken away. Colours are red, yellow, black, red and orange.