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White belt with sequined designs. The belt is wide and rectangular with no fasteners. The design has floral motifs in pink, blue and green sequins. The edges are lined with yellow and gold sequins and a silver sequined geometric pattern. The inside is stiffened with cardboard and lined with white cotton.
Long, white panel with sequined designs and yellow tassel. The panel has a straight top edge with white ties knotted at the sides. The sides taper inwards to a rounded bottom edge with a yellow tassel in the centre. On the front is a sequined designs border of a silver sequined geometric pattern with a yellow and gold edge, interspersed with floral motifs in pink, blue and green sequins. The back is lined with white fabric.
Man's brown leather belt, trimmed with white painted grommets and brown metal studs; fastened with a narrow leather strip and metal buckle. Two leather loops on bottom edge for attaching tools. Two tools attached: a knife (18.3 cm) with metal blade, wood and bone handle, leather and bone sheath; ovoid leather pouch (approximately 33 cm long), trimmed with yellow and red wool fabric, yellow and green rickrack and light yellow-brown reindeer fur. Small square of plastic tape (reflective tape?) glued on at centre back; evidence that two other squares of tape had been attached but have fallen off.
Ivory-coloured, smooth plastic shuttle is ovoid in shape, with tapered ends, and consists of two pieces, joined together at the centre with an oblong post; the two pieces curve inward so that they come together at the ends. One end is sharply pointed. White silk gymp thread is wound around the centre post.
Pair of white gloves with black patches of animal skin with long fur glued onto the fingertips and three places on the back of the hand. Long, translucent plastic claws are also glued onto the fingertips. A metal snap closure is affixed at the wrist.
Folding fan with thirty-three inner ribs of split bamboo and two bamboo parent ribs. Covered on both sides with white paper printed on one side with dark blue band at upper edge, painted with leaves and flowers in light and dark red, light blue, and grey. Rivet of light yellow plastic, through which is threaded a cord of white silk 14cm. long (double) on which is threaded an imitation pearl.
Set of three plastic sticks, each with a flat, balloon-shaped finial at the top; finials are orange (a), yellow (b), and grey-green (c). Finials each have one small cut out near the top and are painted with characters and linear floral and geometric designs in black.
A woman’s headdress consisting of a crown and a broad panel that hangs down along the back. It is shaped from a piece of coarsely woven dark brown and blue textile and is heavily decorated with cowrie shells, red and white glass beads, and embroidery. The crown portion is embellished with closely-spaced rows of cowrie shells and a central strip of geometric shapes formed from red and white glass beads. There is a large brown and orange pom pom at the centre back. The “tail” is decorated with scattered small buttons of various kinds and small silver diamond-shaped ornaments. A costume jewelry brooch (gold with red and blue stones) is pinned in the centre. There is a strip of embroidered geometric shapes at the end of the “tail", and the bottom edge is finished with a braided fringe formed from the warp threads of the textile.
Sleeveless dress with embroidery. The dress has a round neck, no sleeves and partial centre back opening with glass buttons. The bodice is black velveteen with large machine embroidered floral motifs in red, pink and yellow. The skirt has vertical stripes in three shades of green, two shades of blue, purple and off-white. There is a black velveteen border around the hemline with large floral motifs, narrow bands of white lace and sequins. The skirt is lined with starched cotton muslin with printed pink floral pattern. Very stiff and heavy.
Rectangular, ceremonial skirt, or apron. The main body of the piece is made of black cotton textile which is bordered at the top with a narrow, multicoloured, horizontal stripe. The lower third of the garment consists of a finely-woven, horizontally striped, multicoloured textile, with many woven geometric motifs. A horizontal row of closely-spaced brown plastic buttons is affixed to the apron just above this patterned textile and extends almost all the way across the width of the garment. Many long strands of dark red glass and metallic cylindrical beads, interspersed with white seeds, are attached below this row of buttons and hang freely to the bottom of the garment. Each strand of beads is finished with a tuft of wool, resembling a small tassel.