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Large rectangular woven textile with fringe along the short edges. Composed of three long pieces sewn together. The weave is beige with embroidered geometric designs of stars, steps, triangles and lines in light green, dark green, red, pink, dark blue and yellow-gold. Pockets for hanging sewn to back along the long edge of both the top and bottom.
Leggings made of a heavy fabric, covered entirely in deep red embroidery. One end is edged with a thick border of brown. Each legging is heavily embroidered with a variety of techniques - red and dark green plaiting, red with geometric design cross-stitch, and intricate embroidery organic designs at top divided by two rows of metallic threads.
Fan composed of a painted wooden handle, and a separately woven blade. The blade is decorated around the edge with bands of fabric, which are covered with various needlepoint designs. The edges are lined with black-brown fringe and white beads, which carries over to a diamond-shaped centre design. Also decorated with long tassels in dark red, dark purple, dark blue, gold and dark green. The blade is decorated the same on both sides.
Large off-white rectangular table cloth with ivory hand-embroidery. Edge of the cloth is embroidered creating a scalloped-edge. Five concentric embroidered designs follow the outer edges of the fabric - three zigzags with two repeating designs in between. Across the centre are three columns by six rows of embroidered crosses.
Shadow puppet of the character Celebi, made of semi-transparent animal skin and a watery paint or dye, soaked into the skin. The puppet head and body are separate pieces, tied together with a thin plastic cord through small holes at the neck. Figure is a male, wearing checked pants, a long red suit jacket, red hat and shoes. He holds a walking stick in one hand, his other hand is in his pocket; he has black hair and a mustache. The hole for the stick (to manipulate the puppet) is in his upper neck. The maker's name is written along the back of the neck.
Shadow puppet, Karagoz, made of semi-transparent animal skin and a watery paint or dye, soaked into the skin. The puppet arm, body, legs and hat are separate pieces, tied together with a thin plastic cord through small holes. The figure is a male, wearing blue short pants, with a red and orange tunic, hat and shoes. The hat is made as a removable piece, but is attached in place with a plastic tie. His one hand is under his chin; his other arm is articulated in two places so its position can be manipulated (hold for stick in lower arm). He has a black beard and mustache. The main hole for the stick (to manipulate the puppet) is in his upper chest area. The maker's name is written along the back of one leg.
Shadow puppet, Hacivat, made of semi-transparent animal skin and a watery paint or dye, soaked into the skin. The puppet body and legs are separate pieces, tied together with a thin plastic cord through small holes. The figure is a male, wearing red short pants, with a green, red and orange tunic and hat, and red shoes with rectangular buckles. His one hand is under his beard; his other arm crosses the body so the hand is just below the other hand. He has a black pointed beard and a mustache. The main hole for the stick (to manipulate the puppet) is in his upper chest area. The maker's name is written along the back of one leg.
Dip net composed of a long pole handle, hoop and net. Net composed of woven cotton string. Hoop composed of two pieces of bent wood, tied together at the top and attached to the pole by two wooden pegs, black coated wire and cord. Net suspended from hoop by six metal rings (three on each side), fibre and wire bindings at top. A small piece of dark blue fabric and light green fabric are tied in the net, as well as some pieces of a rough unwound plant fibre rope. A long cord is attached to a metal ring on both sides of the hoop. A piece of off-white string is tied to the pole near the end.
Round, rectangular-shaped headband with strap that hangs from back. Made of beads and band has cotton lining. Strand and band have dark brown-coloured seed fringe on bottom edges. Seeds hang from alternating black and white strands, with a single red bead in each strand. Strap and band have similar geometric patterns composed of yellow, outlined in black, on a green background. Strap has a white border outlined in black. Band has a three tiered border. Border made of a thick silver-white-coloured line, thin red line outlined in black, and another thick silver-white line. Band is outlined in black.
Round, rectangular-shaped headband with strap that hangs from back. Made of beads and band has cotton lining. Strand and band have dark brown-coloured seed fringe on bottom edges. Seeds hang from alternating silver-white and black-coloured strands. Band has geometric pattern of black on a silver-white background with red triangular-shapes and green dots throughout. Strap has geometric pattern of white on a black background with four red diamonds along middle of design. Band and strap have white borders with black outlines.