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Round beaded pouch that tapers slightly at the opening. Opening has scalloped skin flap and two skin drawstrings. Pouch is decorated with purple, red, and orange beads in the shape of a flower on a white beaded background. There are evenly-spaced rectangular-shaped sections of purple beads around the perimeter of the piece on the front. On the side, there are alternating black, and clear coloured beads around the perimeter. There is a vertical line of beaded blue, yellow, red, purple, and pink section running down the centre of the back of the pouch. On either side of the lone, there is a split leaf-like orange, red, and blue beaded pattern.
Amulet box known as srung khor (སྲུང་འཁོར།་) made of copper, with repousse floral designs on front. Back inserted into front, held in place with hide strip threaded through two flattened loops on each side. Top shaped like rounded double arch. Glass insert in corresponding shape with ceramic image of deity inside. Pieces of coloured cloth or paper below image.
Diamond-shaped, decorative hood for a horse, densely embellished with embroidery that the black cotton background textile is all but obscured. The embroidered design is laid out on a grid of squares, with alternating mirrors and floral motifs in the cells of the grid; pompoms and glass beads are scattered through the design field. Two large, circular openings near the top of the piece are bordered with rows of mirrors alternating with circular embroidered motifs. There is a similar border of mirrors and circular motifs around all four edges of the piece. Fragments of fibre tie cords are attached to the top corner and at the sides, near the circular openings. There are remnants of a fringe of clear glass beads on all four edges. The piece is lined with red, white and black machine printed cotton textile, which has come loose in many places. Overall colour is maroon, lilac, black and gold.
Small, square, embroidered textile, made of red cotton broadcloth, decorated with large, circular motifs and border designs. There are four large, circular geometric motifs arranged in a four-cell grid at the centre of the piece. Each of these motifs has eight “arms” in red, dark purple, mauve, green and orange, outlined in yellow. The cells of the grid are delineated with narrow, flat silver metallic braid with four small white buttons sewn where the grid lines meet the border. A meandering, multicoloured line forms a border around the central designs. The embroidery is worked in chain stitch. Flat silver braid is couched around all four edges, surrounded by two rows of red and blue glass beads. One yellow bead is sewn to one edge. The piece is lined with red and white paisley-printed cotton textile, pieced at one corner with black cotton textile.
A necklace of 165 beads, 163 with red and white centre, and a blue and a white glass bead. Hanging from the blue bead is a cross of four graduated horizontal bars with cloverleaf terminals. There are 4 hollow silver owls with moulded features each side of the cross. 1590/290B is a loose owl. Each owl and the cross bear maker’s mark.
A long brown fabric piece with angled ends and a beadwork pattern on one side. The beadwork pattern has a white background with two yellow-centred floral-leaf-like designs outlined with orange and light blue in the middle of the pattern with a dark blue-centred tear-drop-shaped design otulined with orange next to them and a three-petaled design with orange centres outlined with light blue at the ends. Two metal loops are at one end on the fabric side of the object.
A tall dark brown and brown mottled feather headdress with a beadwork head band. The bottom ends of the feathers are wrapped with red fabric and green yarn and attached to the beadwork head band with brown leather. The beadwork head band has a background of white rectangles each with a design in either brown, green, or pink. Brass metal circles are attached at either sides with long orange, green, and red, and pink ribbons. There are some more feathers attached to the head band.
A long brown skin piece with two rounded open split parts at one end and a square end at the other. The two rounded open split parts at the one end have a twisted leather cord with either dark blue or light blue beaded coiling and white beads throughout the bottom ends at either sides. The square end has red-dyed bark(?) around the top parts of the long leather fringe with a row of beads in between. The square end has a floral pattern on a white background. Three flowers have a yellow centre with five red heart-shaped petals surrounded by pink, blue stems, and green leaves. Three flower buds have orange centres surrounded by red. The floral pattern is outlined with light blue beads. The entire object is edges with clear blue beads.
A large headdress with a beadwork head band that has downy white feathers above and long brown feathers extending further upward with more white feathers and some red feathers along the top. The bottom ends of the feathers are wrapped with red fabric which have horizontal rows of beadwork wrapped around them, with one green row at the centre surrounded by a bronze-coloured row and two white rows. The feathers are attached to the beadwork head band with red leather loops. The beadwork head band has a white background with a red and blue floral pattern and green leaves. Around the sides of the head band there are long tan and red coloured bands of felt and two white fur tails with brown tips.
Beaded bottle. A glass bottle covered in beads with light brown hide around the bottom. The bottle has a long slim octagonal neck and a body which flares outward toward the bottom. The beadwork design consists of three horizontal rows of multi-coloured parallelograms outlined with black around the body of the bottle on a light blue background. The section between the neck and the body of the bottle has a multi-coloured starburst-shaped design outlined with black. There is a cork stopper (part b) covered with multi-coloured beadwork around the top. Colours include white, orange, yellow, red, dark blue, and green.