Round, dark brown teapot with a short, circular spout opposite a small ceramic handle. Metal wire is strung around the centre of the teapot; two wire handles run parallel to each other, attached to the metal rigging at the front and back of the teapot.

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.

Manuscript leaf. Long, horizontally rectangular strip of handmade paper with coloured Dongba pictographic script. Pictographs are sectioned off in smaller rectangular compartments, running horizontally in a storyboard-like layout. A vertical strip on the left side reveals a seated man in traditional costume. Discernible pictographs include several seated figures, a horse, a deer, a fish, various stick figures, a rain cloud, and a dove. Pictographs are drawn in a black crayon material, and filled in with various colours including yellow, green, pink, and blue. The paper has raw, uneven edges.

Silver foil-like wad of paper shaped like a peanut with a twisted, conical tip on one end. An orange rubber band encircles the indent in the object's centre.

Golden, metallic paper wadded into a pear-shaped ball with a twisted tip--a rubber band encircles the middle.

Green and white patterned paper cut into a tree-like silhouette with a strip of wood glued vertically to the back that protrudes from the bottom. The bottom edge of the paper has two sliver and gold crown-shaped pieces of metallic paper glued to it.

Pink patterned paper laid over a circular frame. Two silhouettes in green patterned paper are glued to the pink paper--one is chicken-like, the other snake-like.

Large, white-yellow sheet of paper covered with a red printed image on the front--image is a combination of characters and human figures.

Paper chain of black, hollow oval shapes. Paper is white on the underside.

Stack of pink and aquamarine paper cut into a shirt-like shape.