Decapitated head opera prop. Representation of a human head. Hollow head with bamboo loop sticking out of the top. The bamboo is wrapped in a grey coloured fibre. Head has painted black coloured hair, painted red lips, and painted eyes and eyebrows. Head is open at neck. The inside of the head has strips of bamboo that are tied with fibre and is lined with newspaper (paper mache).

Napkin ring with a blue and orange beaded design of a bird on both sides, surrounded by a white beaded surface and opposite from a vertical row of three four-point beaded star(?) designs. The outer edge of the piece is lined with a single strand of alternating blue and orange beads.

Pair of boots made of brown and white caribou skin with the fur on, with soles made of dehaired seal skin. The soles are boat-like with vertical crimps. Between the sole and upper section of the foot a red-brown dyed narrow strip of dehaired skin is inserted all around. The leg section consists of white caribou fur with vertical brown caribou panels on either side of the leg. The front of the leg section and the vamp are made out of a single piece of fur. The top of the boots are lined with horizontal bands of white caribou fur and brown dyed dehaired skin. The band of brown skin is decorated with circular and semi-circular motifs of yellow-white cotton thread. The tops of the boots have a casing of brown dehaired skin through which a cotton cord is strung. On either side of the boots a long strip of dehaired caribou skin is attached into the seam of the sole.

White-yellow fur mask (goatskin?) with eye, nose and mouth holes ringed with orange paint. Visible stitching runs diagonally from left side of mouth to chin.

Helmut-like hat, or cap, with a long flap in the back that covers the ears and back of the neck. It is made of a satin-weave fabric that is machine printed with multi-coloured designs of flowers, leaves and stems, and it is heavily ornamented with glass and plastic beads, metal zipper teeth, plastic buttons, cotton braid and silver-coloured ball chains. On the forehead are panels of curvilinear designs and borders of beading and metal applique. The crown consists of a circular panel of finely-worked silk embroidery on black cotton textile, topped with a beaded topknot and silver ornament. Completely lined with blue-gray cotton.

Pair of dark-brown coloured wooden sandals with light-brown twisted grass straps and black fibre ties. Rectangular-shaped with rounded edges and straight sides. Underside of both sandals have two large drilled holes in the centre and one large drilled hole at each end. Grass straps have been threaded through and tied with knots in three of the holes near the top of the sandals.

Multi-coloured woman’s tunic that is lavishly embellished with panels and bands of embroidery on both the front and the back, incorporating several styles of stitching. The garment is very stiff and heavy. On the front, there is a large embroidered panel from shoulder to hip, and the upper edge of this panel extends over the shoulders to form a narrow yoke on the back. The embroidery on this panel is so elaborately detailed and so densely worked that none of the background textile is visible. Design elements in this embroidered panel include circular and diamond shaped motifs and many small mirrors. Below the densely embroidered panel on the front are three horizontal bands decorated with triangular motifs, rickrack, sequins and metallic braid embroidery. The back of the tunic has a centre-back neckline slit (37 cm). Pouches made of yellow and red textile which is embellished with an X made of black braid are sewn into the top of the neck edge on both sides of the neckline slit. The pouches contain small amounts of dried plant material. Below the back shoulder yoke are horizontal bands of navy blue and silver brocade. A panel of orange textile, embroidered with oval and square shapes, extends to the hem of the garment. The sides of the garment are formed from vertical strips of bright pink, green and gold satin textile. The bottoms of the elbow-length sleeves are finished with several rows of diamond-shaped motifs.

The first piece (part a) is the head of a female painted with a green face and a large oval headdress surrounding her entire face. The headdress has a cylindrical stepped middle part, and the whole thing is red decorated with gold dots and a yellow rim. Her face is outlined with white and she has long black fibre hair. The second piece (part b) is the upper body which has the arms bent at the elbows with the right perpendicularly forward and the left more toward the body. The hands are both held in a position whereby the thumb connects in a circle with the finger next to it. The neck is long and tapers up to a point with a metal loop. The upper body garment is red decorated with green, blue, and gold. The third piece (part c) is the three red and beige multiple stringed strands with red and white tassels which are loosely tied around the neck. The fourth piece (part d) is a skirt which tapers to a red point at the top with a metal loop. The waist has a blue belt decorated with circular gold flowers and a horizontal gold line around the top and the bottom of the belt. Oval beads are painted in three rows around the hips with a pink rope underneath. The skirt is white with visible folds in the fabric and have two sets of horizontal rows that have pink in the middle and green around them which transition to yellow at the back. There is a long thin red front panel decorated with gold dots and sideways crescents outlined with two rows of gold dots followed by a pink, green, yellow, and white garland. Two long thin orange side panels are decorated with horizontal rows of green pink, blue, yellow and black. The fifth piece (part e) is the legs which are slightly fused together with blue anklets decorated with two horizontal of gold dots around the middle. The dark pink feet are standing on a rounded circular base painted grey and black. There is a metal loop at the top of the legs.

Rectangular, appliquéd wall hanging or canopy, featuring repeated motifs formed from pieces of grey, red, yellow and tan cotton textile which have been cut, the edges turned under and slip-stitched down onto an off-white cotton textile background. In the large central field, there are 28 identically shaped square motifs, measuring approximately 20 cm x 20 cm, with stylized floral centres, arranged in a multicoloured checkerboard pattern. Around the edges there is an appliquéd border of abstracted elephant motifs on all four sides, edged with two rows of red and grey sawtooth designs. Small loops of cotton string are spaced at the corners and at intervals along the edges.

Finely stitched, reverse appliqué blouse panel or mola with a striped design in red, pink, green, orange, blue and white on a black ground. Detailed are four birds in profile, one in each quadrant of a two panel design; all facing the same direction. Wings are decorated with vertical reverse appliqué areas. Two birds are grouped into one panel; two panels make up the mola. Each panel is outlined with a white border. The panel is lined with white backing fabric with splashes of colour printed on.