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Beaded textile composed of a square panel of black velvet with a prayer wheel beaded design. There is a large green and purple flower in the centre surrounded by an off-white band with off-white and purple flowers, green leaves, and four protruding off-white and green buds.
Beaded bracelet with three to four rows of black beads, one row red, one row yellow, and one row light green, repeating. There are eight bands of black with three rows and seven bands of black with four rows of beads.
Round beaded bracelet with repeating diagonal stripes of two rows of black, two rows of red, one row of light green and one row of yellow beads.
Beaded textile consisting of a square black velvet panel with a floral pattern in beadwork. There are two large, red flowers in opposite corners. Between the large flowers are two small, light red flowers with yellow centres. The leaves are done in light green and clear green beads.
A short necklace consisting of white and blue striped beads strung on fibre twine; small knot at the top.
A short necklace consisting of clear and clear light blue beads strung on a black string. Clear beads are spherical in shape, blue beads are cylindrical with tapered ends; one blue bead is diamond shaped.
Knife with long blade and highly decorated scabbard. The blade has carved designs near tip and near handle. Bone handle has inter-woven wires wound around lower part and incised designs covering upper part. Tufts of pink, dark brown and off-white hair are attached at protrusions of handle. Blade has blackened throughout all non-sharpened areas. Part b is a wooden scabbard with four large areas of inlaid bone carving covering much of front, attached by bent metal pins. The bone carving closest to top has a fang-like protrusion sticking sharply out. Between the carvings are many tufts of red, black and white hair and two beadwork bands. The sides are held together with grass bands. At back is a thin pod-like sheath, attached by a grass band and by the woven handle protruding through an opening in the sheath. Dark brown pitch(?) is rubbed over the edges and undecorated areas of the front of the scabbard.
Woven basketry ear pendants with a metal ear hook attached at top. Bottom of earrings (1.2 cm) made of woven vertical grass strips of alternate colours of brown and light brown. Above grasses are pieces of light brown leather. At top of leather is a small loop of black and white beads. The beads are attached to a small piece of leather which is pierced by the metal hooks.
Headband made of red felt with a blue cotton(?) edging consisting of a horizontal band around the back enlarging into a slightly scalloped triangular shape in the front where it is decorated with a beaded light green, white, and light blue flower design. Five leaf-shaped off-white shells are sewn onto the band with two on each side and one in the centre of the flower design. Three rows of light blue beads, each ending with a long white conical bead, mark the two corners where the band grows triangular, and the edges of the blue border are emphasized by a row of white beads.
Necklace of thrity-seven faceted blue glass beads strung on old cord of plant fibre and paper(?), which is attached at each end to leather strips. Strips are sewn around the cord with brown cotton thread.