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Standing wood figure (ibeji) on circular base. Nude figure stands straight, with arms at sides, connected to hips. Thin torso, with slightly rounded stomach, underneath pointed breasts. Has pronounced belly button, buttocks, and genitalia. Lines carved along edges of hands and feet, imitating fingers and toes. Figure has a long nose, open mouth, and two sets of four lines incised across each cheek. Eyes are bulging and have metal nails hammered into their centres. Ears carved in relief and rest flat against head. Head comes to a point, with a raised oval-shape draped across it; tips of oval touch ears on either side of head. Figure has strands of beads wrapped around neck, waist, and wrists. Circular beads around neck are dark blue, with red and white zigzag decorations around openings. Two strands of beads around waist are circular and black. Tubular beads at wrists are yellow, with green and maroon stripes across them. Rectangular sticker on bottom of base.
Gelede mask (part a) that depicts a squat human face with horns; left horn is separate (part b). Face has protruding eyes, triangular nose, and pointed lips; carved ears rest flat against head. Pupils drilled out. Scarification on the cheeks, four diagonal lines, and on forehead, three vertical lines. Top and sides, of upper half of mask, are raised; right side is partially cross-hatched. Eyes are white, outlined in black, and scars are painted black; face is painted red-brown, and upper section is dark green-blue. White horns consist of large ovals that narrow into cylinders; cylinder sections attach to sides of head with nails. Hole drilled into top centre of mask. Interior is roughly carved out and undecorated. Ring attached to top edge, for hanging purposes.
Small dark green velvet bird ornament decorated with beads. The neck is decorated a beaded crisscross pattern in light green, white, light blue, yellow and black. The bird has a line of three beads for eyes on each side: black, red, black. There are single orange beads spaced all over the bird. There is one red pompom ball attached to the beak and two hanging under the bird, all hanging from a length of orange beads. The wings and tail are composed of fabric covered board - with green fabric on top and red fabric underneath. The wings, tail and other seams are lined with orange beads. Both wings and the tail have a design of three beads: orange, yellow, orange. The is a single gold ribbon attached to the bird's head and tail for hanging. The body is filled with stuffing.
Large yellow fabric bird ornament decorated with beads. Most of the seams are whip-stitched with clear beads incorporated into each stitch. The neck is decorated with cylindrical glass beads creating a crisscross pattern, and two columns of purple sequins, each with a red bead. The bird has evenly spaced translucent yellow beads all over. There are two pompom balls attached to the beak, and three which hang from a tubular perch. The wings and tail are fabric covered board - with yellow fabric on top, and red fabric underneath. The top of each wing is beaded in with a green and white foliage(?) design, and the tail is beaded with a star burst design. The is a single dark blue ribbon attached to the bird's head and tail for hanging. The body is filled with stuffing.
Beaded apron with wide flat rectangular panel. The panel has four main rows with repeating hourglass shapes on a white ground. Each row is separated by five alternating lines of white and dark blue beads. The top row has repeating pairs of two blue alternating with two red hourglass shapes, while the following three rows alternate one blue and one red. Hanging from the bottom edge is short beaded fringe in red, flanked by a white and black beads on either end, and one larger black bead, then small white bead at the end. Attached to each top corner is a tie. The longer tie is beaded with fringe in white with some black, and the short tie is plain.
Beaded necklace with seven open-beadwork trapezoids that are connected by concentric eleven semi-circular strands of beads that hang between them. The beadwork is completely white with exception of two dark blue beads, and one dark green bead. The beadwork hangs from a twisted fibre cord and has a loop closure on one end.
Tie rack made of fabric-covered rigid board (likely paper). The body of the rack is rectangular, with an arched top edge and a scalloped bottom edge. The front of the rack is dark purple pile velvet with a beaded floral design in green, grey and amber along the top of the rack. There is a wide, rigid band across the bottom half of the body, with a wide space between the band and the body. Across the band are the words "TIE RACK" in white beads, with sequins dotting the spaces in between the letters. There is a double row of blue beads along all of the edges, and a twisted, double strand of multi-coloured beads attached along the top edge top, likely meant for hanging the rack on a wall. There are three loops of pink and blue beaded fringe hanging in three spots along the bottom edge - at each corner and in the centre. The back of the rack is covered in a red fabric.
Beaded scissor case. Fabric-covered rigid board (likely paper) in a cone shape. The front of the case is brown pile velvet with a beaded organic design in greens, light blue, orange, pink, red, and white, with gold sequins. There is a double strand of multi-coloured beads attached near the top at the opening, and a looped fringe of multi-coloured and white beads hanging from the bottom edge. The pocket is lined with red fabric, which is the same as the fabric that covers the back.
Small ornamental beaded holder made of fabric-covered paper board(?) with loop of thin red ribbon attached at top. The body of the holder is shell-shaped, wider at the top with a scalloped edge, narrowing in and then fanning out slightly at the bottom edge. There is a raised rigid band of beaded fabric at the narrowest point, likely to act as the holding point for an object that could be inserted from the top and held in place. There is a double row of white beads along all edges, and two different beaded flowers on the front of the band and on the body at the bottom edge. The flower on the band is of pink, white, green, yellow and amber beads, and the flower on the bottom edge is made of round blue and green beads with smaller white beads. There is a looped fringe of multi-coloured beads hanging from the bottom edge, and the word "CAUGHNAWAGA" in yellow beads along the top scalloped edge, with green cylindrical bead embellishments. The back of the body is solid red fabric.
Beaded cloth bag. Small vase-shaped bag with dense beading on both sides depicting a floral motif in pinks, blues, yellows, white and clear. The beads are stitched on to a black pile velvet fabric. There is red fabric sewn around the edges, and there is a fringe of clear beads hanging in loops from the red fabric edge. There is a rounded flap at the top of the bag on both sides of the opening. There are white beads sewn along the edge of each flap in a zigzag pattern, in addition to the floral motif. Underneath the flap on one side is a large buttonhole-style opening. The bag is lined with a natural colour fabric.