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Long thin rectangular hanging of rust coloured silk, with embroidery and couching on lower portion. The embroidery is a scene with a boy on a dragon and a girl on a phoenix, as well as flowers, plants, waves, and buildings. Colours used are white, gold, green, blue, light green, light blue, yellow and purple, with gold thread couching in some areas. On the rear bottom left corner is a printed inscription in Chinese characters, and a piece of tape(?) with printed Chinese characters.
Vertically rectangular black embroidered and couched panel showing a bird (phoenix) standing on one leg with the other raised, wings partly spread. Foliage surrounds the bird. Couched with gold wrapped thread. Colours used are gold, red, green, blue, purple on black silk.
Orange vertically rectangular silk panel with embroidery image, adhered to paper. The paper covers the entire back of the panel, and the front edges. Embroidered on the panel is a male figure, holding a spear in his left hand. He wears an elaborate headdress. Oval embroidered shapes surround him on top and both sides. Couching in gold wrapped thread; embroidery in green, blue, gold, pink, light blue, yellow and light brown.
Orange vertically rectangular silk panel with embroidery image, adhered to paper. The paper covers the entire back of the panel, and the front edges. Embroidered on the panel is a blue-skinned male figure. His hands are clasped at neck level in front of him and he has a gold bracelet on each wrist. A flowing pink and green scarf surrounds his shoulders and continues down his right side. He wears an elaborate headdress. Blue oval embroidered shapes surround him on top and both sides. Couching in gold wrapped thread; embroidery in blue, yellow, light blue, white, purple and green.
Embroidered appliques adhered to horizontally rectangular paper. The large centre applique is a phoenix balanced on one leg with wings spread, standing among tree branches, foliage, and chrysanthemum flowers. Some of the foliage has metallic thread incorporated. There are five smaller appliques with foliage motifs in the corners. Colours are green, red, dark brown, light brown, blue, medium brown and light blue.
Embroidered appliques adhered to horizontally rectangular paper. The large centre applique is a crane standing on one leg, wings tucked close to body, amid foliage, branches and flowers. Some of the branches are partially sewn with gold metallic thread. Two smaller appliques sit to the bottom left and right of the larger one, on the left is a grass and rock motif and on the right is a branch and leaves design.
Civil rank badge. The silk badge vertically divides into two halves, with the embroidered image continuing across both pieces. Embroidery contains both silver and gold couching. The central figure is a standing bird, embroidered onto a separate piece of fabric that has been sewn onto the panel. The bird stands on one foot, with wings partly spread. The embroidered background, from bottom to top, has a two-tone regular pattern in gold, blue rectangles, an irregular pattern in gold, and small blue rectangles in a regular pattern interspersed with a variety of motifs. A border edges the panel in a repeating pattern of motifs. Colours are blue, dark blue, black, gold, green, and red.
Three cut fragments of a ceremonial wrap skirt made of silk, with purple and red dyes. Two of the fragments are ends (b,c) with a thick red border along one edge; the larger fragment is from the centre. The design is a weft ikat resist technique (known as endek).
Ceremonial altar cloth in shades of brown and copper-gold. Black cotton warp, bronze metallic filament weft. Continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft with silk single filament yarn. Adat house motif, with buffalo heads.
Ceremonial women's wrap skirt. The two panels of hand dyed purple silk, hand-loomed with a discontinuous warp, are stitched together at a horizontal seam that runs across the middle of the skirt. The continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft of silver thread creates a band of triangular temple-like motifs along the bottom and one side edge of the skirt and several lines of silver stars within the body of the fabric.