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Fragment of a spindle shaft. Top end is tapered, bottom end is splintered. Dark and light brown bands painted near the base. Dark yellow cotton yarn wound around shaft, above the painted decoration.
Fragment of a sling. Cradle and handles all trimmed in dark brown-black. Cradle is dark yellow-brown with an inner dark brown-black border. Inside of the border there is a plain line through the middle and has alternating brown and red triangles on either side of the line. Split in middle of cradle. Triangle pattern extends into handles. End of right handle is missing. Left handle extends into tightly woven brown-black braid.
Panel fragment from a mantle or shroud. Light brown and rectangular in shape. Alternating diagonal bands, done in light and dark brown, across entire surface. Wide diagonal bands have standing bird motifs, thinner dividing lines between the bands have wave designs. Wide light brown border along bottom edge with large wave pattern. Designs done in dark brown. Dots in between the wave crests. Border trimmed on either side by two plain dark brown lines.
Six fragments of a tubular headband. Consists of a central section (part a), four braids (parts b-e) and a wrapped cord (part f). Central section(?) of headband (part a) has design of vertical stripes across entire surface. Main body of section is cream. Stripes done in dark blue-grey, light green-grey, peach, red and yellow. Middle of part a is mainly red. Parts b and c are solid cream coloured braids. Part b's right side is wrapped in red thread. Dark blue-grey cords wrapped in intervals along right side, causing red threads to bulge through in three circular tufts. Part c's left side naturally curves downwards. Right side of part c ends in two smaller branches. Section before split and both branches wrapped in red thread with dark blue-grey cords wrapped in intervals along them. Parts d and e are solid pink coloured braids. Part d has a dark blue-grey cord wrapped around its left edge and long pink fringe. Part e is a plain braid with a left side that curves downwards naturally. Part f is cream coloured and its right side ends in two smaller branches. Dark blue-grey cords wrap around entire length at intervals bordered by dark purple lines. Likely that the cream fragments (parts b and c) were on one side of the central section (part a) and the pink fragments (parts d and e) were on the other side.
Fragment of a garment. Two pieces of cloth sewn together along the top edge. Front cloth is rectangular in shape, brown and has a three by eight square grid across centre. Square backgrounds are all light brown-red. Designs in each square alternate between birds and pairs of stepped ladders with dots in their centres. Ladders are same brown as background of overall fragment. Birds are black. White semi-circles, with upside down black-brown triangles inside them, along top edge of front cloth. Back cloth is triangular in shape and plain white-brown.
Two fragments of a tubular headband. Both have alternating bands of red and yellow yarn along their lengths. Left side of largest fragment (part a) curves downwards slightly and has a short brown yarn strand extending from it. Right side has three yarn strands extending from the fragment. Two are short, straight and brown. The third is long, spiraling and has alternating red and yellow tufts along it. Smallest fragment (part b) curves upwards slightly at both ends. Left side of part b has three straight strands of brown yarn extending from it. Right side has three strands of yarn extending from it. Two are straight and brown, one is spiraling and has red tufts along it.
Headdress made of a brown felt cap with a small leather and beaded band around the forehead. Long white and dark brown feathers attached above the band, all around edges of cap. Six small white feathers sewn directly to top of cap. Long feather shafts wrapped in red fabric and secured to the brown cap by loops of skin. Strands of animal hair adhered to white, circular pieces of fabric that are attached to tips of all of the long feathers. Beaded forehead band has designs of crosses and pyramids done in white, dark blue, orange, black and red. Band has two beaded circles attached to ends with crosses and triangles done in light blue, red and black. Strands of silk-like fabric drape down from centre of beaded circles. Strands are white, lavender, dark blue and dark yellow.
Baby puppet. Hand puppet of the Baby character, from a Punch and Judy puppet set. Head, hands and central body carved from wood. Visible wood components- head and hands- painted beige. Character has protruding ears, round cheeks and long button nose. Cheeks are rosy. Mouth is open and painted pink. Eyes are light blue circles with white dots in them. Baby has short red-orange strands of yarn for hair. Character is wearing a red polka-dotted dress and white bib, with lace-like trim. Dress has two rows of wavy blue trim along the bottom edge. Plain wood cylinder, that head is attached to, inside fabric body with rod attached to bottom. Metal ring along bottom edge of body opening. Operated by holding the rod inside of the puppet’s body.
Two plastic cookie holders made of plastic rope with a tassel attached to the bottom, and a plastic butterfly attached to each tassel.
Cup-shaped basketry container. Cup is slightly wider at the top, then tapers closer to the base. The base is coiled.