Length of a halved bamboo stalk; two notches carved into both ends.

Roughly cylindrical paper lantern; slight depression around the centre and raised circular openings at either end. Thin, ecru-coloured paper laid over a crisscrossing, latticework of thin pieces of bamboo.

Tool with leaf-shaped iron blade, the end of which is bent upwards and then wrapped around a short, round handle. The part attached to the handle is partially broken and rusty.

Small, pick-like metal tool; gently curved metal piece attached to the top of a straight wooden handle. A short, straight piece of metal protrudes from the bottom of the handle.

Rounded clay jar with a flat bottom and a raised lip; brown glaze around lip. Glazed on inside; outside is unglazed. Chip on edge of rim.

Calligraphy composed of a rectangular sheet of paper, red on the front face, and inscribed with four Chinese characters in black.

Bucket (a) made from planks of wood attached around a circular wooden base made from three larger planks of wood with a thick metal wire around the base and woven strips of bamboo at the centre of the bucket's height (b). The wood is dark brown. Two protrusions near the top rim on the outside serve as handles.

Bowl made from planks of wood held around a circular base made from larger wooden planks with an iron band around the base and thick metal wire near the rim. An iron wire is looped through two holes in the side of the bowl.

Thin, white, handmade paper with seven Dongba pictographic script in black ink. Chinese characters appear down the left side with a red stamped seal. Images include the following from top down left to right: a profile of a horse head with a hoof and three circles intersected by a line; an elongated H-shape with a rectangle underneath the bar and a profile of a goat head; and a backwards double s-shape, a curve hook shape, and an oval that has two long upward curved protrusions. The paper is horizontally rectangular.

Hat made of polished black cotton fibre (?) with two small rounded flaps at the sides with a pink synthetic fibre (?) edging, a silk fibre (?) ribbon border around the bottom edge of the hat with bands of blue, green and pink and white geometric patterns, and an overall domed shape. At the front edge of the hat is a row of metal domed ornaments with a shorter row of metal figures in relief, three of which have protruding three-lobed headdresses. There are five metal medallions with floral motifs and toothed edges. Three of the medallions have bells and other ornaments attached with chain, and one has two flower-like metal protrusions with green and pink fibre at the centre and a butterfly-like metal protrusion. There is a pink fabric pompom at the peak of the hat.