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Small woven ceremonial mantle, made of wool. One third of the shawl is black with no decoration on either side. The remaining two thirds are covered in small detailed embroidery, mainly in white, showing birds, sheep, llama, winged horses, and people in both plain and ceremonial dress. Areas of embroidered motifs are interspersed, as are areas of embroidered colours and white lines. The shawl is bordered on three sides by a thin edging of purple, green and white squares.
Long narrow woven sash-like garland. There are a number of traditional weaving designs including “shinguk chot” or goat horn design, “munguzyeek chot” or fly design, “birra kumba chot” or male goat’s crossed horns and “watch chot” or the hourglass drum. The main colour used in the weaving is a yellow-green. The fringe is separated out into 14 sections with 12 of those section made up of the gathering of several threads which are then wrapped with gold and silver thread. The two innermost sections are wrapped with green and red thread.
Long, narrow, woven sash or garland. The length of the garland is white, with multi-coloured and white fringe at each end, which is grouped in sections and wrapped with multi-coloured thread.
Light brown shawl made of two pieces of textile sewn together. There are several lines of geometric designs on the bottom of the textile next to the fringe, which include: “zyak chot” or line dance design, “mun-gu-zyeek chot” or fly design, “bir-ra kum-ba chot” or male goat (or markhor/wild goat) crossed horn, “o-si-chin gam-bu-ri chot” or sallow tree flower design (which is found in the centre), and "mishari chot" or mixed design. The designs are woven from several different colours of wool. The reverse side shows the loose thread ends from the designs. (Part b is a needle used for fastening).
Long white sash divided into fourteen uneven, multi-coloured, woven sections. There are several design styles represented including the “mi-shar-ri chot” or mixed design, “o-si-chin gam-bu-ri chot” or sallow tree flower design, “bir-ra kum-ba chot” or male goat/markhor crossed horn design, “pati-chot” or woman’s waist band design “pati-chot/pon-du-i-ruk” or small circle design (which appears as diamond shaped) and “shin-guk chot” or goat horn design. There are fringes on either end of the sash which are light brown and multi-coloured wool. There is also a willow loop that encircles the sash for fastening.
Pair of green knit wrist bands. Each piece is relatively narrow at the mid-point and flares toward the opening on the ends. The scalloped edging pieces at the openings are knit separately and attached to the wristlet by red wool. Each wrist band is decorated with crisscrossing lines of white beads, with each created diamond enclosing five red beads.
Large woven basket has a relatively short bulbous body (part a), angling sharply in and upwards at the base. The round pedestal foot sits inside the body perimeter, only partially visible in profile. It is decorated with a single ring of cowrie shells. To the basket are attached four strips of hide, each with three rows of cowrie shells attached. The strips are long and thin, holding the lid (part b) to the body of the basket. The lid is round and wide, with an inset lip allowing it to sit snugly on top of the basket body. The lid rises to a high centre protrusion. Body and lid are decorated with dyed dark brown and red zigzags and concentric upsidedown Vs.
Heavy wool recangular mantle consisting of two identical panels sewn together down the middle. The colours are, from outside to centre: red brown, a strip of coloured lines running vertically, a vertical panel in a circle motif of red and white with a grey line running down the centre, dark brown, a wider panel in a diamond motif of red and white with a yellow line running down the middle, a second strip of coloured vertical lines, a thick line of red brown. This arrangement continues in the opposite to the edge.
Long narrow cloth with numerous coins attached at the bottom. Cloth is a light yellow-brown colour, with horizontal stripes dyed in black, green, yellow, blue, green and red on its lower portion. Beneath these are coins attached to thread, dangling from the bottom of the textile, 53 in all. Each coin is round with a square hole in the centre through which the thread is attached. The coins have Chinese(?) characters imprinted on them.
Long narrow cloth, mainly off-white, with three horizontal areas of colour made up of thin lines in combinations of red, blue, black and pink; one on either edge, and a third running down the centre. Covering the cloth is a light pattern hand-drawn of thin dark grey lines in a large, open, geometric design.