Gift as a memorial to Dr. Harlow Brooks

Alfred W. Jenkins Fund

Turquoise silk cloth with an overlaid purple centre panel and a looping gold filament border stitched on around the edge. The top surface of the runner-like cloth is covered with a decorative hand embroidery of mixed gold and copper filaments attached in a couching-technique known as stumping, with the resultant cross hatching of the ivory coloured thread covering the under surface. Cloth has long twined strands that hang out beneath metal fringe at both ends.

Long bolster cover. Rectangle of pale green cotton cloth has a shiny border stitched to sides and ends made of strips of the same fabric with songket supplementary weft design in gold covered thread.

Ceremonial outer skirt cloth. Songket style, multi-coloured orange and red checked cotton with gold continuous and discontinuous weft patterns and motifs.

Ceremonial skirt cloth (saput). Long maroon coloured cloth, hand woven on a back strap loom with discontinuous warp. The natural dyed silk is single sided and weft faced. Alternating rows of hand wrapped gold and silver thread designs decorate the central panel, framed within a gold border.

Ceremonial cloth in of songket brocade. Warp is red cotton, weft is purple silk, and the continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft is gold wrapped cotton thread. The centre motif of a traditional adat house is flanked by four karabau, or buffalo heads. The framing border of alternating gold filled squares and purple squares with crosses is thicker at the corners.

Ceremonial altar cloth (tok wi). Long rectangle of green silk with imbedded floral patterning is hemmed on three edges and has a border sewn along the fourth edge, consisting of three different strips of fabric hand embellished with couching techniques and embroidery in gold, silver and blue thread. Two edges are lined at the back with strips of an orange coloured silk.

The velvet is maroon. The cloth is cotton. The seed bead is white, gold, red, blue, green, yellow, and orange. The bead is metal.

The cloth is black and silk. The thread is gold.