Cantonese Opera prop. Rectangular red piece of wood.

Cantonese opera prop representing a bow. Long, flat, painted bamboo. One end has a rounded point, the other end has a squared-off point. The squared-off point has an incised section near its tip. The bow is painted with vertical stripes of dark red, black, white, and dark yellow.

Cantonese Opera prop. Flat, rectangular piece of wood painted red around the edge. The centre of the block--delineated by a deep carved line--is pained black, with on small red rectangle.

Cantonese opera prop representing a bow. A long curved piece of wood painted black on one side and stripes of red, black and white on the other.

Cantonese opera prop representing handcuffs. Rectangular piece of brown wood with two circular holes cut through it.

Cantonese opera prop. Spear with a cylindrical wooden shaft that has been wrapped in off-white fabric tape and has a silver, decorative wooden finial. Grey hair has been attached around the shaft at the base of the finial and tied with orange cord.

Cantonese opera prop. Cylindrical, black and red vertical container with a circular cavity.

Prop horn. Double-reed brass horn with a tapering ribbed wooden body--wooden body has seven segments, each with a finger hole. End of wooden body is attached to a tapering brass fitting with two spherical knobs centred on it--small reed mouthpiece is attached to this fitting.

Cantonese opera prop representing a clothing hook. Brown wooden object with eight upward prongs around a cylindrical central shaft, ending in a rounded base from which the eight prongs, evenly spaced, protrude upwards from the shaft at a ninety-five degree angle. A length of white-yellow cotton cord is looped through a hole in the top of the shaft.

Cantonese opera prop representing a mourning staff. Solid bamboo reed with frayed cloth wrapped around three-quarters of its length. The cloth is beige and brown. The part of the reed that is showing has been painted blue-green. It has a hole running through its diameter near the end through which a blue, twisted string is looped.