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Doll representing a male figure and made from unbleached cotton. The parka has blue and green embroidered trim and a fur-edged hood. The doll wears brown and white woven sash, mittens, a brown and white crocheted toque, brown pants, and boots with embroidered trim and ties. The facial features are embroidered.
A plain woven rectangular cotton pillow cover with four large pink, and gold-coloured wool, tassels. Embroidered with lines, butterflies, and flowers, all in abstract motifs. Gold-coloured thread around the tassles. One side open with copper metallic, and pink embroidered lace on it. Decorated with a few light pink sequins.
Yellow brown wood shaft that has one end inserted with tang of large metal arrowhead then tightly wrapped with wool(?) strip. Metal head composed of two long wide barbs, one on each side curving back towards shaft. Head only slightly pointed. Shaft's butt end is notched and whipped with fibre. Short cut pieces of a dark brown feather and fibre-lashed vertically around shaft's circumference. 'x' pecked on one side of arrowhead.
Cylindrical-shaped headdress with basketry support (triaxil interlacing) and large, flared, upper rim; has entirely beaded surface sewn on cloth-covered support. Horizontal bands of white triangles on black. One wide row of white zig-zag. Two single rows of red beading. Rows of white and black at rim. Small opening at basket top stuffed and covered by cloth which is wrapped into stiff support for hollow, beaded cone, inverted, projecting from top, with stiff black hair wisk, hide wrapped and sewn on wood stick projecting up from cone's centre. Wisk's base, wire wrapped. Cone's flared rim has four beaded straps, two with black and white stripes, the others with white triangle pattern and red beaded edge, attaching cone with flared top rim of cylinder. Two attached, looped, beaded straps, one at each side at ear area, one in black and white, the other in red and white. One has dangling bead string. One base side has short, bead-wrapped cloth projection.
Rectangular basket with cedar slat and root coil construction, with beading on three sides. Imbricated on four sides with vertical stripes of yellow-orange, brown and red coloured bark, and possibly grass? The wool tumpline has a zigzag pattern of pink, green and red, on a braided plant fibre (hemp?) strap; the strap is attached to the basket edge by cotton string in three places. The upper rim is wrapped.
Skirt of brown cotton with ends sewn together at the rear to form a tube. An applied blue strip flanked by two tan strips border the top edge and a strip of plain brown fabric forms the bottom border. A central pattern incorporating key patterns inside stepped geometric designs is embroidered on the front in light brown thread with orangey-brown wool (?) linear designs. The design is bordered at the top and sides with a repeated triangle design.
Two identically cut panels; sleeveless; stitched together at sides; hidden seams; hemmed; v-shaped neck front and back. Red felt trim cut along one side in repeating pattern of peaks. White, yellow, green, and pink lengths of rickrack trim stitched overtop. Trim borders armholes, front and back of neck, and hem, then extends further to form tassels. Embroidered motif of green flower stalk with pink and yellow flowers repeated to follow trim around hem, arm, and neck openings.
Square bag made with cotton appliqué. The surface is decorated with an orange square border followed by four concentric squares in orange, light orange, green and white. The middle has a dark blue cotton square with multi-coloured stripes embroidered in various patterns. Central square is bright orange. Arranged symmetrically at corners of appliqué design are small semi-spherical silver ornaments, two of which have a string of white shells, a blue bead and brown seeds hanging down. Tassels of multicoloured wool, strings of white-glazed clay beads, brown seeds, shells and squares covered in multicoloured thread hang from two corners of bag face. Two ends of black looped strap form sides of bag; finished off in orange appliqué and multicoloured tassels on the bottom edge.
Red wool brocade on black cotton fabric in diamond pattern; two pieces stitched together. One side has five horizontally placed silver cup-shaped ornaments, opening sewn facing inward, each with five long three-dimensional triangles suspended on two levels by chain. Central fabric of bag folded upwards from base. Two ends of looped strap done in red brocade to form sides of bag are folded inward by doubling strap over. This causes two seams on either bag face to occur centrally, and black strap to have double thickness. Ends finished by adding band of white weft lines then unravelling black fabric and twisting two strands each to form tassels. Along top, colourful embroidered crosses occurring four on each bag face, and spaced yellow weft lines, all horizontally placed. Silver is tarnished and one cup has only two triangles suspended from it.
Square wool bag with a long thin braided twine strap in brown, orange, red and pink. The bag has a central red, green, purple, pink, white and brown geometric design of zigzags and circles on a checkered ground. Bordering each side are red, orange, white, green and brown stripes of varying width. There is a slit opening and loose fabric on the bottom creating a threaded fringe. Both sides are identical. Hanging from the bottom are two twisted threaded strands with four small tassels.