Basket made from a frame composed of two bent branches and several supports with twisted grass woven around them. Square at the mouth tapering towards the base. A grey twisted goat hair rope is secured to one side and serves as a carrying strap.

Woman’s dress with fitted bodice, standing collar, long full skirt and long sleeves; made of coarse, deep red wool textile. The opening is at the centre front, with a rectangular extension that overlaps the bodice front, right over left. No fastener. The extension is embellished with decorative piping and three decorative cloth buttons at the waist. The textile was woven in narrow strips (about 20 cm) that are pieced together at the selvages to provide sufficient widths. The full skirt is gathered onto the bodice with small pleats; there are 32 cm slits in the hem at each side. All edges are faced with bias strips of turquoise/blue cotton broadcloth (roughly 5 cm wide). Hand sewn.

A large rectangular piece of brocaded silk with a pattern of flowers, and leaves in a variety of bright colours. Upper edge is folded over. Upper edge and side edges are trimmed with finer blue and silver-white brocade. Bottom edge has a long silk fringe in alternating bright colours. Backed with a green patterned cotton that has black X-shapes with a white dot in each inner corner. Two cotton ties attached to upper corners.

Men’s long, A-line, long sleeved coat with high Mandarin collar. Left front extends over right front and fastens with brass ball buttons and decorative loops, located at centre front, and at the right side seam under the sleeve. Collar and left front extension are edged with decorative piping. Made of dark red coarsely woven wool textile. The textile was woven in narrow strips (about 20 cm) that are pieced together at the selvages to provide sufficient widths. All edges are faced with bias strips of light-coloured cotton or silk broadcloth (roughly 5 cm wide). Hand sewn.

Simple, long, loose-fitting, drawstring pants made from dense, home spun, fulled, off-white wool textile. Some minor colour variations occur in the textile. Front and back are identical. A 24 cm shaped panel at the centre front and back provides wearing ease; the legs are straight top to hem. There is a casing at the top for a drawstring but no drawstring is provided. Mostly hand-sewn, with some machine stitching. Bottom edges of the legs are left raw.

Part of a woman’s ornamental headdress (see also Ee70 a-b). The headdress (called the perak) is a long (69 cm), straight, narrow (9 cm tapering to 5.5 cm) strip, shaped like a cobra snake with a broad head and long, narrow tail, made of several layers of stiffened cotton textile or felt that is covered with red cotton textile. The head of the cobra is embellished with irregularly shaped stones that have been stitched to the surface (thirty-three pieces of turquoise and green malachite, along with four pieces of agate, two of which are surrounded by rings of turquoise inlay), and two silver kagu or amulets. The body and tail of the cobra are embellished with three long, vertical rows of white cowrie shells, and there is a small brass bell at the tip of the tail. Permanently hand stitched to the left side of the tail of the perak is a rectangular piece (9.8 cm x 33 cm) of similar design, called the chuti. It is embellished with nine vertical rows of coral beads, accented with lapis and jet beads; at the top of the chuti, there is a rectangular amulet with turquoise inlay and gold leaf. An oval shaped piece of agate in a silver setting is at the base of the chuti. On the underside of the headdress, at about the middle of the tail of the perak, a strip of metallic silver mesh, reinforced by stiff cotton textile, is affixed; there is a small silver hook at one end of the mesh strip and a small brass hook at the other end. (Image shows Ee70 a-b -Ee71.)

Part of a woman’s ornamental headdress that consists of two large, stiff, flat, (roughly) semi-circular pieces, each made of two layers of animal skin (probably lamb or goat), with short, dark curly hair intact, glued together back to back. The top edge of each semi-circle comes to a point, and when worn, the pieces protrude from the sides of the head, resembling large ears. The two pieces are attached together at the bottom end, and as well, are attached with a 7 cm ‘bridge’ made of twisted wool fibre at about mid-point. One side of each of these ‘ears’ is plain, without further adornment, while the reverse side is embellished at the bottom end with five rows of braided cords made of coarse wool fibre. These cords are glued or sewn onto the surface of each ‘ear,’ and then extend down the back of the wearer for approximately 116 cm; they are tied together about 57 cm from the bottom. Ee70 b is a length of loosely twisted wool yarn, with a decorative brass hook at the each end.

Long magenta silk shawl. The shawl is hand-woven with a row of black chain stitch and a long fringe on the ends.

Hat with brim of black lambs wool. A coarse brown woven wool cloth lining gives the hat its form. Over this is sewn a blue silk-like fabric with a darker blue overall pattern and circular gold Chinese designs. A band of black lambs wool 10 cm wide is sewn on the inside and is turned up with peaks at the ears. Across the front, the 3 cm wide band of black lamb skin is sewn on with two bands of bright green and pink binding.

Hand-woven cotton sash made of 3 pieces of fabric sewn together lengthwise. Purple outer borders with two narrow parallel stripes in black. Inner piece is natural in colour with purple and black stripes near edges. Decorated at the ends with multi-strand cotton in a chain-like furcate stitch across the piece.