Rectangular leather purse. Bag consists of a wallet and a cover, attached by a long thin strap made of twisted leather that holds the wallet inside the cover. Cover has red and black tooling on front in linear patterns with a square at centre. Top has two green leather ‘’tubes’ to each side from which the strap emerges, and a yellow triangle between. Cover is seamed at back. The red inner wallet has two compartments each covered by a large flap. Innermost pouch is decorated with black lines on a red background. Leather tassels hang from bottom.

Leather purse. Bag is rectangular, rounded on bottom edges, with a long, braided leather shoulder strap. The bag is constructed out of a single piece of leather, folded to create two compartments and a flap at front. Sides of compartments are sewn. A long shoulder strap of braided leather is attached at top corners and tassels made of crimped leather hangs from corners as well as centre bottom of flap. The front of the bag is decorated with linear tooling, and lines in black.

Cotton blanket. Large textile is made of fourteen long thin pieces of weaving that have been stitched together. Each contains the same designs, alternating in some instances, matched in others to create long continuous lines. Near centre of blanket, Niger’s flag appears many times as well as patches with Niger’s colours of green and orange. Other designs include red or black lines in a variety of thicknesses, and several diamond shapes motifs. Nearer the edges the majority of design is short lines made of black dots on a white ground, along with stripes in red, black and white. A single patch of blue sits close to one end. Ends of blanket have short white fringe.

Large round woven basket or mat. Base is flat, with edge lifting slightly. Weaving incorporates dyed grass to create thick circles at centre in green, brown and black, diamond shaped patterns in four groups of two, interspersed with sets of dotted lines along the body of the mat, and encircling lines of green and brown at the rim. The circular patterning is seen on the underside of the mat, but not the diamond or dot patterns.

Textile. Long cloth is dark brown with thin multi-coloured stripes at even intervals, and wide end stripes of mauve, green, blue and yellow. Ends hold a short warp fringe. Dense embroidery covers the surface in small motifs ranging from joined triangles, X-shapes, and boxes, in a colours such as neon pink, red, blue, green and orange. The backside shows no embroidery other than long, single remnants of thread.

V-shaped fish hook carved from wood. Wooden spike set at an acute angle to arm, possibly a separate piece that has been attached, with section of woven fibre wrapped around arm and bound by loosely plaited coconut husk fibre. A long plaited coconut husk cord (110cm) is bound to the end of the other arm. A small section of blue and grey striped fabric is wrapped around the arm under the binding. (Both arms have labels adhered to them, one with the collector's initials.)

Rectangular basket with low sides. The exterior is woven with thin strips of grass with alternating off-white and reddish-brown checks and zigzags. The weaving continues over the handle. The interior is woven with a standard basket weave of large strips of undyed reed or plant fibre. The rim of the basket and the handle appear to be made of strips of grass, and the base is woven from large strips of grass. (Note: basket has undergone repairs since the photo was taken.)

Large rectangular tapa cloth with hand-painted designs. Black square at centre, bordered by repeated geometric designs. Uneven triangle-cut edges on three sides. The back is plain. (Small piece of tape with collector number adhered to side.)

Long sash woven with a diagonal weave of strips of a grass-like material. The ends of the strips form a short fringe along the top and bottom edges. Strips which has been dyed red are woven in diagonal lines, as well as in a broken line, along both the top and bottom edges.

Robe made up of many horizontal strips of cloth sewn together into a single piece of fabric. This is folded and sewn to create a tube-like garment. Weave is tight, fabric is thick, with a blue and white checker pattern overall, decorated with flower motifs at the edges. At middle is an area of high patterning, showing diamond shapes and wavy lines set in strips. At each end of the robe is an attached set of twisted tassels.