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Woman's skirt. Composed of many pieces of fabric stitched together to form a tube-skirt. The top section is beige with pink hues, then blue stripes with some pink accent stripes on a beige background. The centre is Acheik (horizontal wave) pattern in light yellow-green, pink and dark green background. The bottom section is red textured fabric. The reverse is plain beige with borders of dark red on the sides and top edge.
Women's body-wrap (phi) composed of two panels stitched together on the long edge. The panels have matching patterns, but are attached so that they are mirrored. The textile has a dark red ground weave with two horizontal black bands, outlined in off-white, on either side of the centre seam. The top and bottom edges are finished with a single black band. Between the black bands are groups of three grey horizontal lines or two grey with one black centre line. The wrap is embroidered on both sides with a column of repeating horizontal green and beige lines that are stitched vertically. The columns are flanked by vertical lines in beige and dark blue-grey. Three short vertical lines in green and beige with tufts at ends are embroidered through the wide black bands on the centre seam, with a set on either side of centre, and either side of the seam. The short edge has fringe.
Woman's head cloth composed of three distinct fabrics with each side ending with very long tassels. The middle section of black fabric is folded and partially stitched on the sides, creating a section that unfolds and expands. There is a section of dark teal fabric on one side, and a brightly coloured patterned fabric on the opposite side that has a line of silver sequins stitched on with bright pink thread. Extending from the fabric are long red and yellow tassels that are decorated with Job's tears seed pods.
Man's body cloth. Composed of two panels stitched together on the long edge. Orange-red background with six bands of embroidered designs on red, light blue, yellow and green backgrounds. There are two vertical bands, each with four vertical yellow bands of zigzags. The yellow embroidery pulls on the textile resulting in uneven edges. Sides have folded hem.
Woman's wrap-around dress (kira). The dress is composed of three woven panels stitched together on the long edge to create a rectangular fabric. Each panel is finished in chain stitch in either red and dark blue or light grey-green and light brown. The centre of the textile has a beige background with evenly spaced bands of stripes. On each side there is a section of alternating solid orange and navy blue bands on an off-white ground weave. Both sides have sections of navy blue, grey, and bright orange bands in various sizes on a dark orange ground weave. One side is heavily embroidered with alternating lines of dark blue or dark blue-green and red designs including meander, stepped pyramids, diamonds, and other motifs. Fringe on the short ends.
Blanket composed of four woven panels. The two centre panels have alternating thin stripes of red and dark green. The two smaller outer panels have three light grey lines, the middle stripe off-centre. Short edges have a folded hem. Collector's tag sewn on.
Body wrap or body cloth. Composed of three panels stitched together on the long edge. The seams have thin black bands on either side, which come together to create two distinctive black bands. The two outer panels have vertical bands of red and black lines in various thicknesses close to the outer edge. There is horizontal embroidery of three dashed lines of red and some pink in both the upper and lower portion of the textile, creating a frame with the vertical panels of the central embroidery of repeating raised lines in the same tone as the background. The short edges have folded hems.
Blanket or body wrap. Eggplant coloured textile with five alternating horizontal bands of light purple bands or two thin lines. Shell decorations sewn on in form of a male figure and a female figure. The short ends are stitched leaving a very short fringe.
Men's shawl composed of three panels, stitched together on the long edge. There are two smaller panels, and a large panel in the middle. The centre panel has a dark black-brown centre with dark grey-brown on either side, with embroidered red squares in a grid of seven across and eight down. The side panels have a dark black-brown ground with four horizontal beige bands. The short edges have twisted fringe with knots.
Blanket woven with dyed dog hair. Composed of four small panels stitched together on the long edge. Off-white ground weave with dark grey-green dots, a mismatched column of X's, and two columns of zigzags on either side. Some of the dots have either red, blue, or pink included. Each end has bands filled with alternating zigzags of dark grey-green with colours like pink, yellow, blue, green and red. The short edges are uneven with some fringe.