A woman’s headdress made from coarsely woven dark brown wool textile. Consisting of a headband and an attached narrow “tail” or streamer that hangs down the back. Lavishly decorated with cowrie shells, red, and white glass beads, buttons, and embroidery. The headband is embellished with two rows of cowrie shells separated by a row of red glass beads. The bottom edge of the headband is finished with multi-coloured embroidery resembling a braid. The “tail” is trimmed with many buttons, red, and white glass beads, and cowrie shells forming floral and geometric shapes. The bottom is fringed (about 13.5 cm.) and the side edges are finished with red, blue, and yellow-green embroidery resembling a braid. The textile used to construct the headband is woven in plain weave while the streamer is made from warp yarns which have been braided and loosely woven together to form a fabric.

Four wooden finger guards held together with a leather thong threaded through small holes. Each finger has a claw-like area with a hole in which a finger can be put with top side decorated with six incised circle decorations. Extending from hole of claw area on each finger is a flat area that curves in opposite direction of the claws and is decorated on the same face with five circular decorations. There is a small, semi-circular notch out of the end of each flat area.

Woven fabric sewn into a skirt-like tube. All-over geometric pattern with diamond-shaped motifs in red, green, blue and yellow-brown on a black ground. Slim bands of red at both ends with an additional thick band of orange material sewn onto one end.

Woven fabric sewn into a skirt-like tube. All-over geometric pattern with diamond-shaped motifs in red, green, blue and yellow-brown on a dark ground.

Large, rectangular, hand-woven, multi-coloured, multi-patterned textile (kira), worn by women as a wrap dress, part of the national dress of Bhutan. Woven in three long, narrow panels, which have been stitched together edge-to-edge, matching the patterns accurately on the seam lines. The long vertical edges are woven in colourful red, green, blue and yellow stripes, forming a 13.5 cm decorative border on each side; narrow vertical stripes (0.75 cm to 1.5 cm) of blue, red and mixed colours appear at irregular intervals across the textile. On an off-white background between the coloured stripes, are many multi-coloured, intricate, geometric patterns that have been applied horizontally with a discontinuous supplementary weft technique, forming a wide variety of motifs and border designs that float on the surface and have the appearance of embroidery. Only the ends of the supplementary-weft designs show on the reverse side. Red is the predominant colour, but a whole range of primary and secondary colours appear in the designs. Many loose ends and unattached threads show on both sides of the textile. The warp threads are twisted to form a short fringe at each end.

Two long widths of fabric sewn together at the centre. Lightweight, cream-white fabric with fine red warp stripes near the selvedge, some red and black weft stripes at one end and two broad red weft stripes and black stripe at other end. Area between is heavily embroidered with bands of black, red and blue geometric, repeat designs.

Large rectangular piece of thin, muslin-like, tie-dyed cotton. Fabric has been folded in four and covered with elaborate patterns of knot-like resist ties that penetrate all four layers of folded cotton, giving the material a puckered appearance. The outer border of the fabric has been dyed red, while the rectangular centre is a deep blue. In fourteen spots on the blue ground, larger amounts of material have been tied into clear plastic, resisting the blue dye and showing a red colour.

Heirloom cloth with supplementary weft of gold thread. Gold metallic embroidery of flowers and various surrounding areas of repeated geometric shapes, on red ground. Centre of flowers are coloured in blue, orange, brown, or pink.

Large, round, bulbous-shaped container, part (a). Mouth of container is wrapped with yellow grass. Container is repaired with yellow grass in three areas, vertical stitching. Ring of small triangles in pattern around top of container, also four incised squares, two with one carved 'X' and two with two carved 'X's. Lid, part (b), is short, bulbous, hollow and deep, narrowing at top with carved 'X' and incised design on flat top. Four sets of parallel incised lines. Lid also repaired.

Large, heavy container of dark wood. Circular shape with three hoops of wood rounded on the outside: two lower on the bottom and one on the upper part under the lid area. Lid is leather with two loops at the side pierced and connected to a hoop with a strip of leather. Leather carrying strap is also connected to a wood hoop. Some red-brown hair is still on the hide.