Rectangular, ceremonial skirt, or apron. The main body of the piece is made of black cotton textile which is bordered at the top with a narrow multicoloured horizontal stripe. The lower third of the garment consists of a finely-woven, horizontally striped, multicoloured textile, with many woven geometric motifs. A horizontal row of closely-spaced cowrie shells is affixed to the apron just above this patterned textile and extends almost all the way across the width of the garment. Many long (38 cm) strands of dark red glass and metallic cylindrical beads, interspersed with white seeds, are attached below this row of shells and hang freely to the bottom of the garment. Each strand of beads is finished with a tuft of red wool, resembling a small tassel.

Woman’s skirt, consisting of a long, rectangular, dark red and black length of tie-dyed cotton textile. A large red central panel is bordered at one selvage edge by a narrow (19 cm wide) black band and at the opposite selvage edge by a wider (41 cm wide) black band. Clusters of white, yellow and red geometric patterns formed by tie-dyed dots are widely scattered throughout.

Long rectangular, hanging blue textile with three sets of two white horizontal lines; two sets at the top, one at the bottom. The middle consists of a white triangular shaped design made by rectangles and squares. Twisted fringe at the bottom.

Cream belt with fringe and silver couched designs. On both ends of the belt is a single prunus motif in silver. Knotted onto both ends is a cream, six strand woven fringe. The back is lined with a translucent silk.

Red damask silk jacket with embroidery. The jacket has a short standing collar, long wide sleeves and side opening with frog closures. Around the neck, side opening and bottom hem is a scalloped border with scenes of landscape and human figures on natural coloured ground. Alongside the borders are green floral trim, cream floral trim and blue edging. Around the sleeves is a natural coloured band with butterfly motifs on back. The damask is woven containing a cloud motif and the eight Buddhist symbols of good fortune. The inside is unlined.

Snake made of cotton fabric wrapped around black stuffed tube. The head is bulbous and has two circular inked eyes. Twined rope is wrapped around the head and tail to hold fabric in place. The snake is slightly coiled around itself.

Large, wood, rectangular shaped shield with rounded corners. The surface is painted with the union jack flag. The underside is concaved and has a fibre handle consisting of many pieces of braided rope wrapped together with a piece of cotton fabric. Along one of the sides is an electrical cord, cut and tied into a knot at either end. Adhered to one of the corners is a flattened red and yellow tin can that reads: ‘Globe, Drippings, Product of Australia’. Covering almost half of the back is a nailed, large piece of metal. There are large cracks through the shield that have been repaired with adhesive, metal ties that protrude from the surface.

Sarong made of pieces of blue fabric sewn together to form a tube. The blue fabric is embroidered with a geometric design in green, white, yellow, and pink.

Rectangular shaped, red and pink cotton textile decorated with a top section of stripes embroidered with geometric designs in orange, yellow, red, pink, dark green and beige. The bottom half section consists of long strips of fabric held together by embroidered section of geometric design that matches the top. The bottom strips are loose creating a fringe and have two lines of embroidered detailing.

Square shaped bag made of a long piece of fabric folded and sewn along the sides. The opening used to have a drawstring closure but still has a braided strap on either side that has tasseled ends; one side is broken. The bag is decorated with stripes of embroidered geometric designs in green, yellow and beige intermixed with sections of solid orange.