Piece of red rectangular paper with a vertical column of black ink Chinese characters.

Piece of red rectangular paper with a vertical column of black ink Chinese characters.

Black damask silk shirt (part a). The shirt has a standing collar, long sleeves, side slits and a side opening. The side opening has a frog closure with elaborate floral detailing, metal snap fasteners and a metal zipper. The damask is woven containing leafy sprays with oval hanging fruit and circular ornaments. The inner lining is black silk.

Roughly rectangular piece of dark brown wood with a straight, short handle protruding from one end; carved from a single piece of wood. A curvilinear shape with scalloped edges is carved into the top of the rectangular section of wood; floral motifs are carved on the bottom of the shape.

Bucket composed of slats of bamboo, coopered around a circular piece of wood and held with strips of metal fastened around the circumference near the top and at the bottom. The bucket is painted red on the outside.

Length of halved bamboo with jointed double hooks made of iron suspended from either end.

Cake mould. Grey-white, unglazed ceramic sphere.

Cake mould. Grey, unglazed, clay sphere.

Long bundle of braided stem-like material; unbraided, flaring and slightly blackened at bottom. Bound in six places with twine. Twine loop for hanging at top.

Plain red cloth, with uneven end and long edge.