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Plain with eleven characters marked down length of handle; handle has mottled surface; hair is grey-white.
Face depicts a deity, and has exaggerated features. Face is pale green with open, red mouth, wide eyes, and long beard made of black hair.
Painted mask that depicts an old man's face, representing Okina (翁; elderly person), also known as Hakushikijō (白色尉/白式尉; white okina); flesh colour with red lips, black hat rim, with beard and bushy eyebrows of coarse white hair. Eye, nose, and mouth openings and wrinkled appearance.
Standing male figure with a long red beard, dressed in elaborate armour suit; all in gold, except for a red cap. Belt and shoes have t'ao-t'ieh motifs. Gold, red and black base. Unmarked.
Blanket woven with dyed dog hair. Composed of four small panels stitched together on the long edge. Off-white ground weave with dark grey-green dots, a mismatched column of X's, and two columns of zigzags on either side. Some of the dots have either red, blue, or pink included. Each end has bands filled with alternating zigzags of dark grey-green with colours like pink, yellow, blue, green and red. The short edges are uneven with some fringe.
Braided animal hobble (hank’ay). The natural fibre braided loop is created from 16 pieces of yarn in brown, beige, and black, possibly from coarse llama(?) and horsehair(?) with a spiraling diagonal stripe design. A red and beige bobble with a beige horsehair(?) tassel is attached to the ends of the braid..
Hat made from woven pandanus leaves with fibre stitching. The hat is conical in shape with a squared top. The interior has a plain weave construction that is stitched together with fibre. The exterior covered by layered strips of pandanus leaves overtop, arranged in a triangle shape, in alternating shades of light and dark brown with stitches along the edges of the leaves. The rim of horizontal strips of pandanus leaves is hand stitched in a blanket stitch with twisted light brown coconut fibre and black human hair thread. The inside of the hat has a circular plaited band of pandanus leaves and a synthetic fibre cord threaded with a small round wooden bead is attached.
Fly whisk. The handle is a short and relatively straight stick covered with woven back and yellow fibre, held together by orange stitching. At upper end is a long, thick hank of white horse hair, attached by a tightly woven panel fibre. Hair thins toward end of whisk.
Masenqo or single-stringed bowed lute (part a) with bow (part b). The lute has a diamond-shaped resonator is made of four small wooden boards glued together, then covered with stretched rawhide, which is stitched together. The single string is made of horse hair, and passes through a wooden bridge. The hair is knotted to a large tuning peg. The bow (part b) is composed of a U-shaped piece of wood that has plaited plant fibre strung between holes at the ends of the wood, and then tied.
Two-piece mask (part a) and tunic (part b) costume. Mask consists of a rounded basketry headpiece, crowned with ten horns, and a rectangular panel hanging from the front. Headpiece is covered in thick braids, made of hair, which wrap around the bases of the horns. The braids then extend downward, draping over the chest and back of the wearer. Braids have red cloth tied at intervals along their length with cowrie shells hanging from their bottoms. The mask panel is covered entirely in cowrie shells with stuffed red fabric in the centre, imitating eyes and a nose. Additional cowrie shells and red fabric decorate the horns. The tunic is sleeveless and indigo-dyed, with off-white designs throughout. Designs are inside rectangular blocks across surface. Designs include: interlocking abstract “X” shapes, dots, concentric diamonds, and propeller-like shapes. Fringe decorates bottom edges and slits are cut underneath arm openings. Black cloth lining around neck opening and slits.