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A large shadow puppet of a Chinese man. Wearing an elaborate ceremonial hat once red, green, yellow, and pink, now colours faded in most areas. Wearing long oriental style robes with floral decoration on half of the body on the front. Large green sleeves edged with pink. Has black high heeled shoes. Plastic rivets on shoulders, elbows, hands, and knees. One right angled black water buffalo horn stick pointed downwards connected to the hat end with black string. One black horn stick on each hand.
Long, flat wood object with a u-shape cut in both ends. Thin cord is wrapped five times around one end and knotted. Other end has hole which is threaded with a thicker cord forming a half-hitch knot over one fork to make a long loop. Loop end has a long thin strip of horn(?) with one end doubled over cord and wrapped with sinew.
A large shadow puppet of a male Chinese warrior with a black chin beard and a long black moustache. Floral warrior hat. Wearing long sleeved floral robes with matching trousers. Flowers are pink and yellow with green leaves. Edges of sleeves and trouser bottoms are black as are his shoes. Plastic rivets at shoulders, elbows, hands, hips, and knees. One handling stick is at an angle facing down tied to the ear and the hat.
Double layer of stiff white rawhide stitched together on all sides except the top where there are two dark brown loops. Darker leather, stitched on halfway down rawhide, has five slits cut through to hold four bone tools. Two brown white coloured tools, round, slightly curved, pointed at one end with a lip at the other, are joined together with leather thong. Two other tools are brown, each have a lip at their top, and a round shaft which flattens and curves then tapers to a point.
Half-moon-shaped object is pointed at one end and polished; the rest is dull and has a yellowish colour. Two drilled holes through object are strung with orange cord held in place by pegs. Three bone chips hang from cord. Near hole is 5.5 cm. Piece has rounded end with drilled hole looped with two cords. The four cord ends are tied to a long, much thicker cord. On its end is a strip of horn, attached by being bent over the cord and lashed down.
Large cow horn made into a goat bell. Dark brown flaring out to a white colour. Two holes at each side with a piece of leather through them. Choker is made of braided thick leather tied together strips with two flat pieces of leather tied together as a clasp. Inside, there are two carved pieces which are solid wood hanging on metal wire.
Ulu type knife. Wedge-shaped steel blade with convex cutting edge and circle cut out on one side. Blade is riveted to a metal shank connecting it to a short horizontal handle of brown musk ox horn.
A shadow puppet of a young Chinese man with elegant smooth features and long black hair with a round green, yellow, and red hat. Wearing a floral robe of red, yellow, green, pink, and light brown with trousers to match, and black sandals. Joined in the shoulder, elbow, waist, hips, hands, and fingers with plastic rivets on the arm parts, and hide rivets on the body. Black horn bent at right angle following length of hair connected to sideburn with black string.
A shadow puppet of a Chinese man with a wrinkled face, short black hair, and a long moustache. Wearing a red hat with yellow plumes on the back and two flowers. Wearing black high cut Manchu laced boots and intricate floral robes with trousers to match. Three horn handling sticks, one at the back of the head bending downwards at a right angle, tied with black string, and one at each hand tied also with black string. Plastic rivets connect parts, shoulder, elbows, hands, waist, and hips. One boot shows completely while with the other, only the foot appears from under the long robes.
Conical bowl with engraved triangular pattern at outer rim, two parallel incised lines near join with mouthpiece, and carved extension at bottom. Dark brown exterior with blackened interior and roughly carved to a depth of about two-thirds of bowl length. Mouthpiece joined near centre of side of bowl with join surrounded by cord. Tube of bone slightly curved. The join is not perpendicular to the vertical axis of the bowl.