Silk embroidered jacket. Jacket is short-sleeved with a collarless 'v' neck, open at the front and fastened with two cotton ties. Garment is made of tan coloured cotton in a course weave, covered on the exterior by dark purple silk. The front is embroidered in shades of gold with images of standing birds, butterflies, and flower motifs. The back shows two serpentine dragons, bodies extending upward, clawed feet protruding, heads toward top, scales densely embroidered. The dragons are surrounded by flower motifs as well and rounded linear decorations. Arm cuffs are decorated with a single line of circular motifs, while the bottom of the jacket body has several lines of small triangles in black, purple and dark blue. The interior is covered on one side only with a tan fabric in a finer weave than that underlying the rest of the garment.

Thin, white, handmade paper with seven Dongba pictographic script in black ink. Chinese characters appear down the left side with a red stamped seal. Images include the following from top down left to right: a profile of a horse head with a hoof and three circles intersected by a line; an elongated H-shape with a rectangle underneath the bar and a profile of a goat head; and a backwards double s-shape, a curve hook shape, and an oval that has two long upward curved protrusions. The paper is horizontally rectangular.

Manuscript leaf. Long, horizontally rectangular strip of handmade paper with coloured Dongba pictographic script. Pictographs are sectioned off in smaller rectangular compartments, running horizontally in a storyboard-like layout. A vertical strip on the left side reveals a seated man in traditional costume. Discernible pictographs include several seated figures, a horse, a deer, a fish, various stick figures, a rain cloud, and a dove. Pictographs are drawn in a black crayon material, and filled in with various colours including yellow, green, pink, and blue. The paper has raw, uneven edges.

Rectangular piece of off-white handmade Chinese paper. Paper is undecorated and coarse, with rough edges.