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Mmwo helmet mask, depicts a female face with an elaborate headdress. Face is cream coloured with raised brown lines highlighting the brow ridge, nose, eyes, mouth and ears. Additional raised dark brown designs on forehead and around ears, decorated with incised lines, painted cream. The designs are two circles next to the ears and a star-like shape on the forehead. Brown circles are painted on the cheeks, at ends of raised lines. Hair is painted dark brown and has incised spirals and lines throughout. Headdress is on top centre of head. It consists of three arches. The smaller, outer arches are cream coloured and have dark brown circles protruding from the outer sides. Below them are dark brown, irregularly shaped arches that extend toward the sides of the mask. Central arch consists of curved, dark brown poles with a hollow semi-circle on top. In middle of semi-circle are white and dark brown circles. Square cut-outs along edges of all arches, where crescent-shaped pieces are inserted. Holes through mask for eyes, mouth and ears. Wrapped cloth border tied around lower edge of mask, interior is undecorated. Large sections of mask’s headdress are missing.
Panel fragment from a mantle or shawl. Irregularly shaped with vertical stripe design across entire surface. Alternating columns of brown and light blue. Brown columns darken, started as brown-grey and ending in dark brown, towards right side of fragment. Blue columns have white interior borders and white diamond outlines throughout. Diamond designs are stitched onto fragment.
Fragment of a garment(?). Brown trapezoid shaped textile with dark red band attached to centre. Band has animal and geometric motifs across surface. Scallops and loops along top and edges of band. Designs are of felines standing on top of two diamonds, overtop of two triangles. In each design the colour of the cat matches the colour of the triangles and the colour of the feline's eyes matches the colour of the diamonds. Designs alternate between facing upwards and facing downwards. Motifs done in light green, pink, yellow and dark purple. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Fragment of a cloth. Irregularly shaped with straight top, left and right edges and a diagonal bottom edge that shortens the right side. Background is brown with white concentric diamond designs throughout. Diamond lines are done in stepped pattern. Textile stitched to grey coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Fragment of a garment. Textile is golden brown and rectangular in shape. Has geometric patterns in diagonal rows across entire surface. Designs done in dark red. Patterns include steps, groupings of three small cubes and bent lines. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Fragment of a sling. Consists of cradle and small section of right handle. Cradle has design of five zoomorphic figures, over a plain background, done in geometric style. Figures have two legs and feet, an oval eye and bulbous head. Three figures and their backgrounds on right side alternate between red and brown. Figures on left side appear unfinished. They are outlined in dark brown and missing their eyes. Both are on brown backgrounds. Entire back of cradle is coloured light brown. Left tapering section is light brown, right tapering section is red. Both sections have transverse stripes done in dark brown and brown. Portion of right handle is brown with concentric diamond pattern throughout. Diamonds done in red and dark brown. Thick light brown strands extend from where the left handle would be.
Shrine or power figure. Roughly shaped in the form of a bush cow; made of various compacted (unidentified) organic materials. The body surface shows cracks all over in the dried, layered materials. Also a layer of orange-brown streak marks running down the sides.
Incomplete fragment of decorative panels from a garment. Rectangular in shape and made up of two panels with the same design. Ground cloth is cream coloured. Entire surface of both panels covered in design of concentric diamonds with bird figures inside them. Diamonds and birds done in dark yellow. Step and geometric style wave patterns throughout with the same diamond and bird motifs inside them. Steps and waves done in dark red, pink and black. Raised lines throughout first panel, on left side, outlining where more step and wave motifs would have been added. Panels stitched together at centre of fragment with cream coloured thread.
Fragment of a mantle or shroud. Rectangular in shape and made up of two panels with different patterns. First panel, on left side, has vertical stripe pattern across surface. Stripes alternate between light blue-grey and light grey-brown. Designs on blue stripes are geometric and done in dark blue. Designs on light grey-brown stripes are diagonal rows with alternating patterns of interlocking snakes and waves. Motifs coloured dark brown, and snakes are done in an abstract geometric style. Second panel, on right side, is plain light grey-brown. Panels stitched together with same coloured thread.
Loom. Consists of a partially completed miniature loincloth tied to two bars (part a) and a removable sword (part b). Sword intertwined in centre of weaving. Sword and bars are made of dark brown-grey wood. Loincloth has rows of design across entire surface. Row designs, from top to bottom, are: plain, three rows of vertical diamonds, line through centre with alternating blocks of colour, "X" design across length, checkerboard pattern, "X" design across length, plain, checkerboard pattern, plain, horizontal diamonds, and checkerboard pattern. Designs done in golden brown, dark brown, red, brown-black and white. Rest of weaving is incomplete and golden brown in colour. Thin metal ring on right side of weaving, on the top bar.