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Tall, cylindrical glass bottle covered with a woven sleeve. Sleeve features bands of curvilinear patterning and repeated fleur-de-lis motifs in red, purple, yellow and black.
Cylindrical, clear glass vase covered by a woven swamp grass sleeve: wrapped twined weaving with plain twined weaving on base. Two double bands of green stripes, three double bands of purple and orange block bands, with two groupings of purple and red flowers. Upper rim of basketry flares outwards from the rim of the vase.
Small cylindrical basket (a) with a short, flat shoulder and a flat, cap-like lid (b); lid is held in place by a cedar flange attached around the basket's opening. Lid has a blue circle in the centre. Top and bottom edge of basket is lined with a thin blue band; repeating equal sign-like motif around the centre.
A hollow bamboo section filled with grass and bark. Bamboo is engraved with designs consisting of two horizontal bands of natural-coloured lozenges among black horizontal lines.and lozenges. Plug.
Six paper folders containing samples of various types of paper (parts b-f) enclosed within a larger box-like container (part a). Box-like container (a) is made of a heavy, thick cardboard covered on the outside with cream-coloured, textured paper and on the inside by cream-coloured paper with a metallic silver swirling pattern; the box has four tab-like flaps at the sides that fold over each other to create an enclosure. Parts b-f are paper folders with four overlapping tabs made from off-white cardstock; the name of the type of paper enclosed within each folder is printed in black ink on the cover of each folder, along with the inscription: "Handmade Papers of the World/Forefathers of Paper/The 80th Anniversary of the Foundation/Takeo Co., Ltd./MCMLXXIX." Each paper sample is enclosed in a plastic sleeve. In order from part b through part f, the paper samples are: papyrus from Egypt, parchment from England, bai-lan from Thailand, amatl paper from Mexico, and tapa from Fiji.
Round basket with tightly woven strips of cedar bark in a checkered design. Thick and think bands of interwoven black dyed piece create a plaid-like design. Base is square. Top edge is braided. Below top edge is open weaving.
A pair of basketry woven pieces, which taper down from one end. The wider end has a design consisting of natural brown-coloured diamond-shaped outlines on a red background surrounded by a horizontal natural brown-coloured zig zag line along the edge, and two sets of triple horizontal natural brown-coloured rows, one of which is interdispersed while the other is solid near the smaller end. The smaller end is plain natural brown, which has a slit tied together with red cording that has blue tassels.
A wide fabric woven band. Main design consisting of horizontal red diamond shapes on a dark blue background. Strands of natural light grey-yellow and dark red hair are attached along the bottom edge, topped with a band of bark (?). The ends become tasseled cords.
A round orange-red gourd container (part a) that has a design consisting of a wide horizontal band with black swirls, and dark spirals. The stopper (part b) is rolled bark with a woven grass design around the sides of brown outlines of diamond shapes on a natural background, and a tooth finial at the top.
The shaft is carved with dark vertically linear designs on a natural background above four of the five cane joints with the top most design consisting of triangles. The end of the shaft is wrapped with fibre. The base of the shaft, near the pointed end, has bark (?) wrapped around it. The point has two stacked cones, each with a double base.