Cantonese Opera costume chest with curved lid and false bottom. False bottom 3 1/8 in. deep, has 1 1/4 in. holes, 8 1/2 in. from either end, front and back, for insertion of carrying poles. Curved lid is covered with leather (dark brown) secured by hand wrought iron nails. Chest is painted red with large circular floral motif in centre front with a green vertical line of characters on either side. Above center is Arabic numeral "2", which also appears at upper left hand corner. Above the central numeral is printed "Made in" (first line) and "Kum Lon Chang Co. Chong Yuen Fong Street, Canton". Pair of iron rings on either side of central numeral "2". Iron handles mounted vertically. Rings and vertical handles on back of chest also. Leather and wrought iron braces on corners. A wrought iron handle mounted horizontally on each end of chest. Discoloured paper label hanging from handle on right side, "Admiral Line".

Cantonese Opera costume chest with curved lid and false bottom. False bottom (3 1/8 in. deep) has 1 1/4 in. holes, 8 in. from either end, front and back, for insertion of carrying poles. Curved lid is covered with leather (dark brown) secured by hand wrought iron nails. Iron closures on lid line up with closures on front of chest. Chest is painted red with large, circular, floral motif in centre front, green vertical line of white Chinese characters on either side. Above center floral motif is Arabic numeral "6", (which also appears at upper right hand corner) and above this is printed "Made in" (first line) "and" Kum Lon Chang Co. Chong Yuen Fong Street, Canton". Iron handles mounted vertically and iron rings on either side of numeral "6". The same handles and rings appear on back of chest, under three hinges on lid. Iron handles on each side. Wrought iron braces on corners.

Pair of silk slipper-like shoes. Leather sole with a flat heel. Uppers: peach blossoms embroidered on the toes with dark green, light green and white thread over white silk. Pale turquoise binding around top. Cotton lining and insole.

Single skin or half drum (shagu or shade), bell shaped. Skin stretched over hole at centre top (approx. 3 cm), and the whole wooden form. Held in place by double row of hand wrought nails and iron rim. Characters, orange, green, and white, on skin. Black characters on base.

Double skin drum; wooden cylinder (hollow) with skin head stretched over top and bottom; nailed in place with hand wrought nails. Wooden portion: yellow characters (3) on green ground. Skin heads; one plain, one has six worn characters, red on yellow ground, green nails. Screw eyes inserted, one on either side in wooden portion.

Wooden vase with rounded shoulder and base and eight lobed segments. Decorated with gold lacquered birds and chrysanthemums with glass ? inset at the centres of each flower. Motifs of lotus, cranes, and fish are engraved on the top of the brass cover. Two pink and off-white blossoms, one green seed pod, four green lotus leaves, and one green arrow-shaped leaf, each with a long and bumbpy stem, are inserted into holes in the covering, and fit into holes on the inside bottom of the base.

Three colourful miniature street figures: a plant seller with cart (part a); a man pulling a woman in a rickshaw (part b; a man with a horse-drawn cart filled with straw.

Thumb piano constructed from a wooden plank base with five narrower, and seven thicker metal prongs raised up from the plank on a piece of wood and bent metal, and secured with a metal bar and wire. Each prong has a ball of resin or wax stuck underneath the end. There is a rattle composed of a metal bar with four metal cylinders attached to the edge opposite the end with the metal prongs. A skin handle is attached at the prong end through two holes in the wooden plank. A ridged geometric design, with an overall rectangular shape composed of four triangles, has been carved into the top face.

Dagger, or knife and sheath (part b). Iron blade with a dark wooden handle. The sheath is composed of hippopotamus and crocodile skin and has a stamped geometric design as well as braided trim, and a loop handle attached at the top.

Spear with wooden shaft covered in bands of dyed red leather at the ends, each with a raised band at either end and a band of grass (?) woven through slits in the leather to form a diagonal pattern, and a centre section covered in off-white skin. The spear has a spade-shaped metal tip with a border of indented semi-circles along the edges of the blade, and incised lines at the base of the blade. The butt end is composed of a conical piece of metal.