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War bonnet or headdress made of a brown felt cap with a wide beaded band that sits at the forehead, with long eagle feathers attached above the band, completely surrounding and obscuring it. They are attached by skin loops and each is wrapped with red fabric, secured by sinew, on the lower portion of the shaft. Tufts of animal hair and burgundy fibres sit on small squares of leather, and are attached with adhesive to the feathers at the tips. The beadwork on the band has geometric designs in red, blue, green and gold on a white beaded background. Strands of red cotton and smaller feathers drape down from behind the headband. Overall colours are dark brown, white, red, green, blue and dark yellow.
Vertically rectangular panel with embroidered scene, sewn into a blue fabric frame. The scene is embroidered onto dark green silk? and shows performers engaged in various activities. At top left, a group in masks and a dragon costume climb a stack of chairs. Nearby musicians and spectators watch and one points. In the lower left are drummers and gong players. The lower right shows a dragon dance. Intermingled are trees and foliage. The blue silk frame has pink designs in the weave. The panel is backed with bright pink cotton. Colours are dark green, blue, pink, white, orange, grey, brown and red.
Square silk panel with embroidered theatre scene. In the forefront of the scene five figures in elaborate clothing dance, some wearing headdresses and holding weapons. Behind them is a group under a canopy with a central male figure sitting on a throne, surrounded by five other figures. A border of flowers and insects separates this scene from a smaller one above, where a flutist sits inside a structure, with another figure and animals standing on the outside. Mountains can be seen in the background. To the left of this scene is a dragon, and to the right, a bird, possibly a phoenix. The background of both top and bottom scenes is embroidered entirely with metallic gold thread. This panel is sewn into a blue silk fabric frame, lined on the back with dark blue cotton. A paper label on the front bottom left corner says “Theatre scene wall hanging...” Colours are blue, gold, green, red, brown, light brown, purple, pink and yellow.
Two orange embroidered panels, mounted onto vertically rectangular blue panels, stitched together. The embroidered images on the orange panels are virtually identical, but reversed. Each panel has a phoenix in flight at bottom, and a dragon at top. Most of the dragon and parts of the phoenix, and other areas on the panels, are embroidered with metallic fibre. The two creatures are accompanied by a gold and blue cage-like structure, foliage, flowers, and decorative motifs. The orange panels have a thin blue and white boarder slightly inset from the edges. The blue mounting panels have a pattern in the weave of the cloth. The blue panels are attached by wide stitching at top, middle and bottom. They are backed by green cotton sewn onto each side separately.
Long yellow, vertically rectangular, narrow panel. Embroidered scene on bottom half of two people in a boat, on water. The boat is hung with lanterns and one of the figures propels it with a stick. The other figure stands in the middle of the boat under a canopy. Also in the scene are trees and vegetation, clouds, two buildings and a bridge. Panel is folded at both ends; partial stamp in bottom rear fold, to the left. Embroidery colours are green, blue, red, pink, white, dark brown and brown.
Undyed coarsely woven cotton fabric with embroidered neck panel, shoulders, bottom, and seam edges. There is a design of an abstracted bird, a symbol, and geometric imagery on the neck panel, the shoulders, and along the bottom of the garment. Most seams of the blouse have been sewn with a criss-cross pattern of red and brown. The edges of the sleeves have a red edge on the front and a brown edge on the back. The edge along the bottom of the blouse has been sewn with a criss-cross pattern of red and black. On the front of the blouse, under the left sleeve, is a wavy line of purple embroidery.
Undyed and coarsely woven cotton fabric with embroidered neck panel, shoulders, bottom, and seam edges. There is a depiction of an abstracted dog figures, a symbol, and a geometric pattern along the bottom of the blouse. There are two rectangles outlined in red-orange on either side of the neck with four vertical stripes of coloured embroidery. The colour scheme within the left rectangle reads as follows, from left-to-right: dark purple, green, light purple-pink, and yellow. The colour scheme within the right rectangle reads as follows, from left-to-right: light purple-pink, green, dark purple, yellow, and light purple-pink. There is a zigzag pattern in green and light purple-pink on the shoulders. There is also a thin vertical line of dark purple towards the ends of the sleeves. Two short horizontal rows of green and red-orange embroidery have been applied to the centre of the blouse, below the neck opening.
A hat made of stiff, felted, un-dyed white wool. It has a rounded crown with a brim. The brim is edged with black seam tape that has been machine embroidered with an interlocking yellow serpentine pattern. This yellow pattern is bordered with a green line of straight stitching. Around the base of the crown are two black embroidered ribbons that continue down into four long streamers. These ribbons are held in place with metal sewing needles. The outsides of the black ribbons are heavily embroidered with multicoloured stitching in elongated "V" and "X" shapes. These "V" and "X" shapes are edged with yellow, interlocking serpentine stitching, bordered by straight stitching in red and blue. The black streamers are tipped with fringes of blue, orange, and dark pink yarn. Inside the hat, a manila-coloured strip of paper has been sewn in a ring.
A knitted doll representing a female figure from Chimborazo leading her cow. The female figure is wearing a green hat, a yellow-white shawl, a black shirt, and a dark pink skirt with blue and yellow stripes near the bottom. She is wearing white pants under this skirt and she has black feet. Her hair is black and it has been tied with white yarn. This female figure is leading a knitted cow by a twisted rope that is looped around the cow's horns. The cow is yellow-white with brown horns, ears, nose, hooves, and body spots.
Tightly woven oblong bag gathered and tied at the top with a braided rope. The base colour is the natural dark yellow-white of the cabuya fibre. The bag displays a design of vertical columns of colour with horizontal arms coming out from each side of the columns in a stripe pattern. Three horizontal rows of colour (black, dark yellow, and pink) encircle the opening of the bag. The rim is edged with braided cabuya fibre rope with loops. The loops were added to hold the multicoloured, partially twisted and partially braided strap.