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Small rectangular woven textile with decorative geometric and figural patterns in red and white. There is a thick, plain, brown, horizontal line across the middle of the textile framed at top and bottom by thin multi-coloured stripes. The bottom edge has a thick, dark green border while the top edge is decorated with a thicker red border.
Square, woven light brown altar cloth with three, thick, vertical bands with pictorial representations of animals. Light yellow with red, pink, green, and orange bands and patterns. Thin, plain lines in green, orange, yellow, pink and maroon flank the decorative stripes. The left and right borders have a red, green and tan weave pattern.
Woven black mantle, or shawl, with bands of red, white and black designs. Four thick black and white bands feature depictions of llamas, birds and other animals. The other bands have repeating geometric designs in white and red. Several have period stretches of dark green. Thin dark blue borders at top and bottom. Made with alpaca and angora(?) wool.
Small woven altar cloth. Rectangular, brown, cloth with patterned vertical bands. The sides have thick, plain, brown stripes. There are two thick, multi-coloured lines with tan edges on each side. The edging alternates between dark and light brown.
Dark brown textile with three pink stripes along the top and bottom edges. The middle stripe is thicker than its flanking stripes and fades to light pink near the centre. There is pink stitching along the edges.
Small woven ceremonial mantle, made of wool. One third of the shawl is black with no decoration on either side. The remaining two thirds are covered in small detailed embroidery, mainly in white, showing birds, sheep, llama, winged horses, and people in both plain and ceremonial dress. Areas of embroidered motifs are interspersed, as are areas of embroidered colours and white lines. The shawl is bordered on three sides by a thin edging of purple, green and white squares.
Long narrow woven sash-like garland. There are a number of traditional weaving designs including “shinguk chot” or goat horn design, “munguzyeek chot” or fly design, “birra kumba chot” or male goat’s crossed horns and “watch chot” or the hourglass drum. The main colour used in the weaving is a yellow-green. The fringe is separated out into 14 sections with 12 of those section made up of the gathering of several threads which are then wrapped with gold and silver thread. The two innermost sections are wrapped with green and red thread.
Long, narrow, woven sash or garland. The length of the garland is white, with multi-coloured and white fringe at each end, which is grouped in sections and wrapped with multi-coloured thread.
Hammered, silver, circular ornament made up of four concentric circles, each of which supports a repeating pattern of a triangular motif. Each triangle is made up of six dots or circles, widest at the base, with the single topmost dot attaching to the next concentric circle. The number of triangles in each circle increases with the increased size of each concentric circle.
Pair of brass earrings, each made of a single cylindrical length of metal, bent into an elliptical-shaped hook at the top end. A metal wire is wrapped closely around the length of each earring, and there is a brass ball at the base of the length.