A shadow puppet of a male (wujing or military man character)(parts a-b) with a black-painted face, a prominent nose, and a down-turned red mouth. Wearing clothing that is decorated in red and green in a floral print with stripes. Wearing black boots. Wire is coiled around the neck. There is an elaborate red, green, and black headdress (part c) that has a crescent shape. Joined in the shoulder, elbow, waist, hips, hands, and fingers with rivets.

Shadow puppet of laodan or upper-class elderly woman character (parts a-b) with white hair. Wearing clothing that is decorated in red and green floral print. She is wearing shoes for bound feet. Wire is coiled around the neck. Joined in the shoulder, elbow, waist, hips, hands, and fingers with rivets. Head is part b, body is part a.

Skirt of three panels of shiny red brocade with embroidered designs. The designs are embroidered flowers with dull centres and leaves near the lower edge. The skirt is open at the back. The panels are pleated and inserted into a band of red shiny fabric woven with a floral pattern and lined with loosely woven off-white cotton. The pleats carry through to the edge of the band on both sides. The upper edge of the band is scalloped with the points of the scallops meeting two red shoulder straps. At both ends of the band are sewn narrow ties of red fabric, roughly machine stitched with white thread. The inner lining of the panels is red nylon mesh, with an interfacing of coarser white nylon mesh.

Moose hair tufting in a floral design on fabric. Three flowers, blue, pink and white, with yellow centres and green leaves and stems, on a reddish-brown velvet fabric background, with lining, on cardboard.

Pair of wooden mule-style sandals. Raised heel. Clear plastic instep strap with three raised horizontal lines; ends are covered with thin strips of leather-like material and nailed to the sole. Sole is covered with a piece of aquamarine and white floral patterned fabric cut to size and glued (?) to the wood.

Woman’s backless blouse with plain bodice, pieced from blue, yellow and red cotton broadcloth, and decorative elbow length sleeves, pieced from panels of embroidery and jacquard-woven ribbon. It has a V neckline in the front and ties at the centre back neck and at the waist with self-fabric ties. The embroidered panels on the sleeves are embellished with metal sequins and mirrors. There is a small pocket on the lower right side of the blouse.

Large oval coiled basket (bifurcated stitches), with elongated watch-spring construction and over-cast stitched rim. Fully imbricated in grass with geometric stepped zig-zag pattern in bark, bottom row continuous, top row in open spaces of lower pattern. Single solid row of bark near rim.

Two pieces of black rectangular armour with different cording (part a-b). The top end of the armour has a high ridge with two blue cord loops. The armour is made of six black lacquer ware pieces strung together with blue and multicoloured (beige, brown, green and black) cord. The bottom of the armour has a yellow-pink cord border. The back is lined with a piece of blue fabric.

Armour has two rectangular panels joined at the top by a blue band with long ties. The panels have metal wire within the bottom seam, causing the lower corners to turn upwards. The panels have blue fabric with a brown pattern. The upper portion has a beige band across the front, with a perpendicular band and keyhole opening. The lower portion has five rows of narrow black metal bars overlaying the fabric. The back is lined with coarse blue fabric.

Large, circular shaped woven bag detailed with red, black, yellow, orange, purple, brown and green triangular shapes on a brown ground. In the centre is red, brown and black braided rope tie.