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Piece of finely woven border in many colours; red, green, pink, purple, white, gold and grey. Has parts of seven rectangles, each with separate images; a monkey, two birds, two humans, a crustacean and one indiscernible shape. The right side of the fabric is double cloth with substituting warps and wefts. The underside is a mass of warp floats. The one intact edge has a scalloped border of woven fringes. Z-spun, two ply s yarns.
Pair of goatskin boots in three main parts. Sole in black, front upper in yellow and back upper and legging in red/brown; trimmed with bands of leather in blue/green. Uppers have horizontal bands of impressed decoration enclosing an applique decoration of concentric circles of cut-out leather on the outer aspect of each leg. The boots are soft soled and show little wear. The right boot has a small patch sewn on the inner leg.
A brown leather bag in three main pieces with appliqued, and embroidered leather trim outlining the flap and the front of the bag. Side inserts extend upward to form a sheath into which a double braided strap handle is bound. Front flap fastens with a leather toggle. Design motifs include diamond and cup-shaped cut-outs of decreasing size, crosses, and dot-and-dash lines.
Fly whisk of light coloured horse hair with the handle bound in thin dark brown leather. A leather strap forms a loop from the end of the handle and there is a leather fringe where the handle meets the horse hair. The loop is decorated with long parallel stripes of dyed and incised lines and the fringe has dyed black parallel lines overall.
A mask made of sheet metal with humanoid features. Has an overall square shape. The mask is convexly shaped in the upper area and has holes in each corner. Two cotton strings are attached through the upper holes. The eyes are almond-shaped and the nose is in high relief. The small, downturned mouth is flanked by diagonal lines defining the cheeks. Metal areas show through a black layer. There are textile impressions on the area around the mouth.
The woven headband is narrow with a long fringe at both ends. The central section of the band repeats double headed serpents twelve times in gold, green and two shades of red. The band narrows to sections of oblique twining and weft faced plain weave on grouped warps at both ends. The warps then become long fringes. Z-spun, two plied s yarns.
Seal made of a single piece of bronze, shaped like rectangular cube, with handle shaped like a clump of fungus. Hole through stems, through which is passed a cord of braided orange silk, knotted. Under base is a single character in seal style, raised; the remaining half of the seal left blank. Remains of red ink on seal. Bronze has dark brown patina.
A closing fan with twenty-three inner ribs of split bamboo with a painted cloud-like design on the base of each side and two bamboo parent ribs also with a painted design set into a dark rosewood piece into which the metal rivet has been placed. Fan face is rice paper with small pastoral scene painted at the centre top with seven writing characters on the left side of the face. Attached to the metal rivet, there are two light blue-green tassels, 25 cm. long, including the cord.
Textile depicting butterflies and birds among a floral design, all in red, dark blue and off-white on a brown ground, with a floral border in red, dark blue and off-white.
Skirt cloth with a batik floral motif deisgn in brown with cream details on a dark blue background. Ends are cream.