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Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: large head (part b) fits into body with skirt (part a), and a control rod (part c) with a long shaft that passes through the body and fits into the neck of the figure's head. The body has jointed arms, each with a long controlling rod attached. Head: forward gazing white face, black eyes, red lips, gold teeth, black moustache, sideburns and hair. Headdress: jamang-blue points outlined in red; gold, red and blue bands across bottom, blue and gold sumping. Garuda Mungkur mostly gold with blue and red trim, black line mouth, gold and red eye, red tongue. Clothing: dark blue tutupan, gold pattern on cuff, white breast piece, blue swatches over each breast held by three gold beads on right and two broken beads on left. Red cloth at throat, epaulettes in orange, red and blue. Two waistbands; top is green and black check with gold and black bands at bottom, lower waistband has floral design in blue, yellow, red and white. The figure is also wearing a light orange, off-white, dark orange and blue batik sarong. The hands are flat.
Brown container of a single piece of duiker or steinbok hide, sewn at base and up one side. Top folded over and edged with red beads. Red and yellow beads and fringe of leather thongs decorate one side of quiver. Leather carrying strap sewn on decorated side. Leather of quiver and strap discoloured in places.
Three strands with alternating groups of red and white beads with button fastener, strung on sinew. Groups of beads separated by leather strips.
Four strands of brown reeds alternating with glass trade beads of white, black, orange, yellow, green, red, and blue strung onto synthetic twine. Large wooden bead of unusual design central piece.
Dance headdress. Multiple light brown, twisted strands of plant fibre (from an aromatic bulb rubbed with red ochre). The round fringe hangs from a circle of sinew. One section of the strands are shorter and decorated with coloured beads of yellow, red, pink, and light blue.
Short loop of twisted sinew strung with red and white trade beads which supports a pendant. This is a triangle formed by rows of red beads outlined on two sides with white beads.
Fine twisted brown sinew with very small white beads and three large transparent pieces of gemsbok leg sinew.
Composed of two strips of hide as well as one horizontal and one vertical inserted bead work panel of predominantly triangular patterns, the horizontal panel has black triangles on a white background while the vertical panel has white triangles on a black background. Three looped strings of ostrich egg beads are placed on each side of the centre panel of beads. One of these sides has an additional shorter string of ostrich egg beads. On one side of the centre panel of beads, there are six short strings of black and white beads. Blue trade beads. On the other side, there are seven strings of beads.
Ornament consisting of two pendants hanging by wire coils from a single ring with a metal loop at the top. The pendants are both shaped with a point at the top, sides that curve outwards and then back in to an elongated tip. One pendant has a vaguely spoon-shaped tip, the other is slightly pointed. Two convex leaf-like shapes hang from either side of the top part of each pendant on chains. Each pendant has a floral pattern inlaid with blue, green and red beads.
A pair of matched earrings (parts a-b) for pierced ears. Each has a blue pear shaped bead with three indentations in a claw setting, below which, there is a rigid stem of wound wire. Raised floral decoration at the top and the bottom of the stem which terminates in a boss-like cluster of metallic heading.