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Rectangular scarf of cream-coloured plain silk with fringe ending in woven silk at each end. Folded twice lengthwise, and many times crosswise.
Long knife with scabbard. Scabbard is smooth silver with two bands of leaf shapes extending from centre ring; single band at opening of scabbard. Loop on one side surrounded with embossed foliate design. Flat tape braided of red-purple silk? with double braid on one side inserted through slit in the other. Handle with concave sides is wrapped with twisted silver wire. Top of handle has overall design of hexagons, each with a Y design inside, and recesses filled with a dark substance. Copper band around top of wire-wrapped area.
Ten objects of the same size and shape; triangular pieces of gold foil with green sticks glued down the back, protruding out the bottom. A second, smaller triangular foil tier--coloured red, green, pink and gold--is raised off the surface of the first by three cylindrical spacers; a red pompom sits in the centre of the second tier. A single, slender strip of peacock feather arises from the back of each object.
Small, square, flat, envelope-style dowry bag or purse made by bringing three corners of a square together, using the fourth corner as a triangular flap. Heavily embroidered with square and X-shaped, brightly coloured geometric designs and round mirrors. Loosely twisted fibre cords (red, yellow and green; 52.5 cm in length) with a yellow pompom, are used to fasten the flap shut. The embroidery is underlined with red printed cotton textile.
Stone disk of mottled grey-brown with a hole in the centre through which is threaded a flat braided cord of fine dark red-purple silk. There is a small floral design etched on one side of the disk. There are breaks at the ends of the cord.
Bracelet of 11 flat octagonal plaques of dark blue stone mottled with yellow. Plaques decrease in size from the centre. Threaded on silk thread with fine metal strip and loop closing.
Man’s long, narrow, rectangular scarf or sash, heavily embroidered with multicoloured geometric and floral motifs and many mirrors. Arranged along the length of the scarf are sixteen square and rectangular blocks of embroidered designs, consisting of a variety of motifs, many different kinds of stitches and two styles of embroidery (kharek and pakka). The embroidery is so dense that it completely covers the background textile. The blocks of embroidery are separated by black “braid” formed from bundles of black cotton thread which is laid and couched with red thread. There is a border of silver and gold mirrors along all four edges, and the ends are embellished with green and pink beadwork and small red-orange silk tassels. A binding of dark green cotton muslin is machine-stitched along the outside edges. The underlining is pieced from plain and printed cotton and rayon(?) textile in various shades of red.
Small, flat, square, embroidered envelope-style bag, detailed with mirrors and pompoms, made by folding and stitching together three corners of a flat, square panel to form a pocket, with the fourth corner left open to serve as a flap or cover. The square-shaped embroidered motifs, formed from bars of satin stitch outlined in black, are grouped together into larger squares that are arranged in a grid, separated with narrow bands of alternating mirror-work and floral designs that form an X on the back of the bag. The square is bordered with mirror-work, alternating with floral designs. The embroidery is so dense that it completely covers the background textile. There are glass beads sewn onto the seams, which are worked in fine interlacing stitch. Small pompoms and glass beads are stitched to the lower corners. At the intersection of the three corners is a small white button, embellished with small coloured glass beads. The embroidery is underlined with red cotton textile that is printed with multicoloured designs.
Close-fitting, shoulder-length child’s hood made of red cotton textile which is heavily embroidered with medallions, geometric designs, mirrorwork and linear border motifs, worked in green, yellow, off-white, blue and black cotton and silk thread. A rectangular panel of embroidered cotton textile hangs loosely to the shoulders at the sides and back. Mirrors, alternating with blocks of interlacing stitch, form a border around the edges of this panel; a square multicoloured medallion and two multicoloured circular medallions are embroidered at the centre back. The crown is embroidered with floral motifs worked in silk floss, and there is a short fringe of green, white and blue glass beads at the forehead. Two short strands of twisted fibre are attached at the front edge, over the temples. The hood is lined with dark yellow and red cotton textile, and the edges of the hood are bound with dark yellow and green cotton bias tape.
Black damask silk haori (羽織) or jacket/overcoat. The neck and centre opening are edged with a wide band. The sleeves are short with hanging panels and an opening under the arms. On the back of the neck and each sleeve is a flower embroidered in light coloured thread. The damask is woven with an abstract horizontal pattern. The inner lining or haura (羽裏) with colourful designs known as gaku’ura (額裏) is cream silk with a floral pattern and covers only the upper part of the kimono. It has three family crests or kamon (家紋) in the shape of diamond-shaped flower motifs known as kage hanabishi (陰花菱).