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Fragments from a headdress. Consists of feather plume (part a) and reed shards (parts b-e). Shards are likely from the headdress structure. All reeds have slightly curved interiors and are brown-orange in colour. Plume made up of long white, purple and green feathers. Majority of feather quills are wrapped in beige thread. Ends of quills twined together.
Fragment of a mantle or shroud. Rectangular in shape with grid pattern across entire surface. Grid squares have alternating vertical and horizontal stripe patterns. Stripes done in white-brown and dark brown. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Complete sling. Cradle is red and has a short split in the centre. Border of cradle is a wide band with alternating dark yellow and red triangles. Border edged with dark green thread along the top edge, towards the right side. Handles are solid grey braids. Sections on both braids, closest to the cradle, have red diamonds outlined in dark yellow. Right braid ends with red tassel. Left braid ends with white wool worked into the grey braid, and a white tassel.
Naturally coloured complete sling. Cradle has a long split in the centre. Left and right tapering sections covered with brown thread. Middle of cradle also covered with brown thread, on either side of the split. Both handles are braided. Left handle's braid is thick near the cradle before narrowing. Handle ends with a tassel of loose fibres. Right handle has black thread braided close to the cradle, before returning to naturally coloured. Handle ends with a plied cord.
Fragment of a sling. Cradle is light brown and has a central split. Edges of cradle are red-brown. Stitches for border clearly visible and move inward, towards the split. Handles are light and red-brown braids. Each have two rows of red-brown diamonds. Space between the rows forms a light brown zigzag along the top and bottom sides of the handles. Right handle extends into a tight red-brown braid. End of left handle is missing.
Fragment of a sling. Cradle is light brown and has an alternating red-brown and light brown diamond pattern. Diamond pattern outlined in dark brown. Through diamond design is a central split. Tapering sides of cradle have dark brown vertical stripes. Cradle ends with thick dark brown bands. Handles are thin solid braids with two rows of diamonds along the sides. Space between the rows forms a zigzag pattern along the top and bottom sides of the handles.
Fragment from a mantle. Rectangular in shape and made up of three panels with different patterns. First panel, on left side, has diagonal rows across entire surface. Rows alternate between interlocking snake heads and wave designs. Done in dark brown, light brown-red, and in an abstract geometric style. Middle panel has vertical stripe pattern. Main section of panel has alternating plain grey-brown stripes and white and dark brown stripes, trimmed in blue. Left and right edges of middle panel have plain dark brown stripes, bordered by checkered stripes. Checkered stripes done in light and dark blue. Last panel, on right side, done in checkered pattern. Done in white and dark brown. Panels stitched together with dark brown thread.
Fragment of a woman's head cloth panel. Textile is square-like and cream coloured. Mainly done in loose gauze weave with sections of dense gauze weave throughout. Rows of "X"-like shapes and four-pronged designs embroidered across surface. Done in glide symmetry. Pronged design alternates between facing upwards and facing downwards. Textile stitched to grey coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Fragment of a wide panel from a mantle or shroud. Rectangular in shape with ground cloth coloured light brown. Columns on the left and right sides with designs done in float weave. Columns are white with dark brown diamond outlines overtop. Inside diamonds are fish and bird motifs, done in abstract geometric style. Decorations on the right column only clearly visible on the back of the textile, material has been lost on the front. In between the two columns are vertical dark brown and indigo coloured stripes.
Four irregularly shaped fragments from a garment. Dark red background with hexagon designs across all fragments. Hexagons alternate between brown-grey with golden brown interiors and golden brown with dark red interiors. All have snake-like faces inside of them. Golden brown hexagons have brown-grey snakes inside them, brown-grey hexagons have golden brown snakes. In the negative space, between the hexagons, are golden brown bird figures. Birds have brown-grey eyes outlined in red. Largest fragment (part a) has two complete hexagons and outlines of three hexagons along the right side. Second largest fragment (part b) has one complete hexagon and the outlines of two hexagons along the top and bottom edges. Third fragment (part c) contains half of a hexagon and part of the dark red background. Smallest fragment (part d) is a portion of the dark red background with golden brown bird figures. Outlines of three hexagons along the top and bottom edges.