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A medium sized standing figure carved with a wobbly base. The eyes and the nose are carved. From the mouth there protrudes a horizontal flat metal rounded curved crescent with hair and a feather on top. Another flat metal rounded curved crescent sticks up out of the back at an angle. The upper body is wrapped around in fibre with a big ball of fibre in front.
A pair of shoes (parts a-b) made of feathers and rope compacted together. Shoes are oval with an oval opening for the foot and a strap across it.
A large rectangular eiderdown mat with a green feather and grey fur border pattern. The back of the mat is fully covered in eiderdown. There are a few heavy cotton thread ends are visible.
The fan has thin black-brown feathers and a decorated handle. The handle is made from a piece of wood doubled over and covered in a thick black substance, possibly resin. Pushed into the black substance are many teardrop-shaped gray seeds.
Small skirt with a fringe made of numerous thin brown strips of fibres knotted onto a woven black and natural, chevron design waistband. One side section has an overlay of smaller, short fringe bundles with a few feathers intermixed. There is a loop on one side, a tie on the other.
Bag made of woven plant fibre with five bands of diagonal alternating light and dark plant fibre and several feathers tied to the front: two clusters of small black feathers, one cluster of striped dark brown and off-white feathers, several off-white feathers, and a mottled dark brown and off-white feather with faint stripes. Plant fibre fringe along bottom, braided handle.
Headdress made of a twisted fibre twine woven together in a net-like fashion with numerous orange and green feathers with black colouring. The multicoloured feathers vary in size and shape.
Feathered armband consisting of numerous green and red feathers, with black colouring, bound together with fibre twine which is wrapped around a small rope of braided black hair. The end of the rope has thin twine wrapped around it along with a green fabric tie.
Crescent shaped necklace consisting of numerous green and red feathers, with black colouring, bound together with fibre twine which is wrapped around a twisted twine rope. One end of the rope is looped with a fragment of another piece of rope that was probably once attached to the opposite end which is now frayed and unraveling. The feathers are displayed in a fan-like shape.
Hat with black dome-shaped cotton (?) base that has domed metal ornaments, off-white buttons, and white glass beads sewn to the base. Hanging from the top front are several strands of multicoloured beads, strung seeds, pompoms, tufts of bright red feathers, and off-white and red tufts of hair.