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Long carved violin with the monkey skin attached on the top by pegging. Strings are attached to the head by tying them to twine protruding pegs and are then tied around the end of the body.
Erhu-like two-stringed wooden instrument (a) with a bamboo sound box (b) covered with lizard skin and two drop-shaped tuning pegs (c-d) (strings are missing). Wooden bow (e) is strung with coarse hair.
Miniature ox-bell. Turned wood cylinder with a jointed clapper at each side. All on a twisted loop of leaf. Wood with horn and ivory knockers; palm-leaf string.
Ivory ox-bell; hollow cylinder with jointed clappers at each side, all on a twisted loop of leaf.
Comb made of one piece of light yellow wood. Wedge-shaped in cross-section with the curved handle being the widest at the centre and tapering off slightly to the sides where there is a semi-circular notch in each side just below the corners. Decorated with a pattern of five parallel lines above tines and at curved handle edge.
A wood arrow with a blunt pointed end that has two brown feathers bound with loosely coiled string.
A hollow cylindrical bamboo piece that has an interlaced plant arabesque design of natural colour on a red background. One end is open while the other end has a crown-shaped decoration.
A delicate carved thin brown piece that has, near the bottom, its tongue separated along its edge but joined to the main part of the instrument at the bottom. The handle has a serpentine design.
A long wood sheath which is open at both ends. The sheath is made of two side-by-side pieces which are held together at one end by a wooden peg in the middle. The upper part of the sheath is bound in a thick leather band.
Pipe shaft (a) and a bowl (b) that fits into the top of the pipe shaft. made from a length of bamboo grass with bands of arabesque pattern stained (?) black. The bowl is stained dark brown and has a flat, circular mouth, carved around the rim, with a cylindrical shaft and notched base. The base of the pipe shaft is pierced with several holes, has u-shaped indents cut out of the edge and is incised with a linear design that follows the edge.