Pair of hide moccasins with designs in moose hair tufting, dyed in shades of bright green and red and placed to make flowers, leaves and stems. Around the opening of the moccasin is a ring of brown fur. Beneath and on the sides of the heel are panels of red felt. The upper inside toe is lined with heavy cotton. One moccasin has worn through at the heel, the other is worn through at the ball of the foot.

Malawian chitenga cloth, commemorating Malawian independence. The repeating pattern shows a banner at top and bottom saying “BEST OF LUCK”, images of the first president Hastings Banda with the words “OUR BELOVED PRESIDENT”, a rooster, and the rising sun behind the outline of Malawi with the words “6th July 1960” and “REPUBLIC OF MALAWI”.

Heavily beaded baby carrier. The back piece is made of a thick, flat board of wood, rounded at top, narrowing considerably toward bottom, covered in hide. The front top of the board is beaded with a pattern of flowers of (from top) blue, brown, red and yellow with blue, all attached to green vines with leaves. The background is white beads. The bottom front half of the board is a leather tie-up bag with a canvas collar into which a baby can be placed. Over this is black velvet, beaded with three multicoloured, large flowers connected by a black and white vine. Green scalloped material edges the apron. The back side is red fabric with a blue and yellow flower pattern. On the back of the carrier is a belt attached at both sides.

Black and gold "Rey Caporal" mask (part a) with large bristly black beard and silver pipe and hat. Blue eyes are framed by fine gold tinsel. The mouth has six white teeth and a thick bottom lip, which fades from pink to blue and is decorated with white and black stripes. The tongue is red with a silver border. Curling black hair wraps around the back of the head into the beard. The beard has a white, tarp-like backing. The hat has a box at the front, resting on the brim, which contains five tubes for the five woolly sticks (parts b-f). The sticks alternate colours without the outside and centre sticks having yellow tops and brown bases, and the other two sticks having white tops and yellow bottoms. A cardboard placard (part g) with gold trim sits in front of the sticks.

Large, rectangular, finely-woven tan mat with fringed grass borders on all four sides. The fringe consists of a regular, thin, short grass with a few long, thick strands. Inside the fringed edge is a decorative triangle-based pattern painted in grey. Along the long sides blue and blue-green fibres are woven into the edge. The short sides have a few sporadic green fibres at their edges, focused primarily in the corners.

Large, finely-woven, tan mat. There are fringed borders along two of the mat’s sides. One fringed edge is additionally decorated with thin tan wood chips. These are sewn under a strip of red cloth, at the centre of which runs two lines of red-tipped feathers. These feathers are arranged with their brown centres towards the middle and their red tips pointing outwards creating the appearance of a set of stripes. There are two short lines of feathers running vertically up from border.

Large, finely-woven tan mat. All four sides have fringed grass borders, with two edges having thick, full fringes and two having thinner and more sporadic fringes. One side has two decorative borders, one of triangle shapes and a second, inner border of feathers. The feathers are arranged with their red tips outwards and their brown bases towards the centre, creating a striped effect. There are white feathers at regular intervals along the border. Three short lines of feathers run vertically up from the decorative edge of the mat.

A pair of moccasins, heavily beaded on top and sides in a simple geometric pattern cast in pink and blue on white. Lines of pink, dark blue and white encircle the shoe’s lower portion. The back is decorated with a hide fringe from the sole to the top. A long tongue, split at the end, extends out of the shoe body, which is tied closed with a short hide thong.

Round leather mat with a beaded, frontal image of a fox’s face. The animal has black and white eyes, a black blaze on the forehead narrowing toward snout, and black and yellow ears. Around the perimeter of the leather are alternating sets of orange and black beads. Part of the edge of the leather has been cut into short thick fringe, while the rest is untouched. Visible on the back of the piece are the threads used to attach the beads to the front.

Round leather mat with a beaded image of a bird’s head in profile. The head is black with a black beak, white eye, and white cheek. Groups of green beads encircle the bird at the perimeter of the leather. The edge of the mat is cut into short, wide, irregular fringes. Visible on the back of the piece are knotted threads used to attach the beads to the front.