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Large rectangular tapa cloth with geometric patterns in dark and light brown against a medium brown base. The designs are organized into a 3x2 grid with very wide columns. Each rectangle contains a diamond –shaped design at centre decorated with abstracted floral-like patterns in light brown. The diamonds in the top and bottom row are dark brown in colour; the designs in the middle row are half dark and half medium brown. Rows are separated from one another by a set of two thick, patterned lines: one linear, triangle-based design, and one chevron style pattern in dark and light brown. Along one edge of each of the grids’ rectangles is a column of light-brown and medium-brown stripes. At the centre of this line is a dark brown square.
Hide jacket with beadwork designs and button front. The jacket length is to the waist, open at front with button closure. The buttons are covered with leather. A flower with a long green stem and coloured leaves is beaded on each side of the jacket. Pockets sit at the hip and are decorated at the top with beaded diamond shapes in green and orange. The underside of the pocket flaps is covered in a green and white flower pattern. The cuffs also hold beaded diamond shapes, in red, burgundy and a clear bead. On the back of the jacket is a line of four inch fringe at the midway appoint, above which are three beaded flowers, in blue and clear beads, with green stems and colourful beaded leaves.
Printed note card with an image on the front, in black ink, of a dancer wearing a raven hamatsa mask. The card and envelope (part b) are cream coloured. The card is blank inside. The artist logo, also in black ink, is on the back of the card, in the bottom right corner.
Circular label on rice paper backing with gold leaf background, outlined in a pink scalloped pattern. Four pink circles surround a green square. A Chinese character is inside each circle, and another is written at the bottom right of the circles. A round narrow band has Chinese characters and "1939 S.F. Chinatown" written inside it.
Large rectangular tapa cloth with geometric patterns in black and light brown against a medium brown background. The decoration alternates between a pinwheel pattern and a design with two circle segments facing away from one another. The designs are organized into a 4 x 6 grid. Three of the designs have been painted with black pigments; the others are decorated solely in light brown. Three sides are bordered by irregularly-edged, un-pigmented tapa.
Large, finely-woven, tan mat. There are fringed borders along two of the mat’s sides. One fringed edge is additionally decorated with thin tan wood chips. These are sewn under a strip of red cloth, at the centre of which runs two lines of red-tipped feathers. These feathers are arranged with their brown centres towards the middle and their red tips pointing outwards creating the appearance of a set of stripes. There are two short lines of feathers running vertically up from border.
Large, finely-woven tan mat. All four sides have fringed grass borders, with two edges having thick, full fringes and two having thinner and more sporadic fringes. One side has two decorative borders, one of triangle shapes and a second, inner border of feathers. The feathers are arranged with their red tips outwards and their brown bases towards the centre, creating a striped effect. There are white feathers at regular intervals along the border. Three short lines of feathers run vertically up from the decorative edge of the mat.
Octagonal drum with deer hide stretched over a wooden frame and secured at the back with sinew. The face of the drum has a splash pattern at the centre in black ink. The hide is translucent along one half of the drum. The sinew, threaded through the edges of the hide, is pulled to the centre like spokes. A piece of elastic black string has been tied to two of the sinew spokes, for hanging.
Round drum with cream coloured hide stretched over a wooden frame and secured with thick hide ties at the back which are looped through a hide circle. The front of the drum is decorated with black ink around the edges with four roughly ovular black ink shapes at the centre. At the centre of the back, in the circle, the hide ties are braided into a cross shape and a black string is attached for hanging.
Octagonal drum with hide stretched over a wooden frame and secured with sinew. The sinew is threaded through the edges of the hide at the back and pulled to the centre. There is an abstract, black, paint splash pattern at the centre of the drum surrounded by many small spots of black. A black elastic string is tied to two of the sinew lines at the back.