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Long rectangular navy blue sleeves with ties at the top and the bottom (part a and b). Top of both part a and b have a triangular shape. Part a is folded in half with the ties coiled on top. Part b is stretch to full length with the ties coiled on top. Part b has a cardboard tag attached to one of the ties with fibre string and a handwritten inscription that has been crossed out. Underneath this inscription, there is a handwritten inscription that reads: "kote."
Poi ball. Stuffed palm leaf ball with fringe in orange, yellow, blue, and natural colours. Long cord attached to top of ball.
A woven basket with a rounded oval shape and rounded sides. The basket has a weave design consisting of counter-clock-wise closed arrowhead-shapes around open work. The main design consists of three horizontal black bands on a natural background with the top band having an alternating pattern of four downward pointing vertical lines and four upward pointing vertical lines while the two bottom bands are simple horizontal lines. The handle curves from one side to the other and has a woven checked pattern.
A woven basket with an oval shape that has upward and outward flaring sides. Simple geometric patterns consisting of two hour-glass-like shapes of purple and maroon on a natural background on each side of the basket at either sides of the handle. The handle curves over the basket from one side to the other and continues around the bottom with a reddish-brown woven zig zag pattern along the top.
A basketry woven fan with a deltoid leaf shape. The main geometric design consists of a double pair of curved dark brown bark rows, one from the inside and the other along the outside, going from the bottom of one side to the top of the other side. Light brown bark background.
Model of an umbrella. A long handle (part a) is split at the end to make four prongs and is wrapped with brown bark(?). The handle attaches to the centre of the underside of the umbrella's top (part b). The top of the umbrella is cone shaped, is woven in a herring-bone pattern, is decorated with a thick band of pink woven grass in its centre and is outlined in black coloured woven grass. There is also a thick band of pink bamboo that is attached to the perimeter of the umbrella top by evenly spaced bamboo loops. Part c is a long thin stick with brown bark(?) twisted around one end. Part d is a long thin stick that has no bark twisted on its end.
Hina doll set. Polychrome figures on tiers covered in red are a set of hina ningyō (雛人形; hina dolls) representing the emperor, empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian period. There are five steps. Top tier: two figures sitting on a rectangular platform are dairi bina (内裏雛), representing the emperor and empress with another figure known as inubako (犬筥, “dog box”) to their outside side. Second tier: a seated figure in the middle with a standing figure at either sides and a lamp at each end are three court ladies known as san’nin kanjo (三人官女). Third tier: five seated figures are five male musicians known as gonin bayashi (五人囃子). Three seated figures in the middle hold drums, one seated figure holds a flute and another, a singer holds a fan. Fourth tier: two seated figures are two ministers known as udaijin (右大臣, minister of the right) and sadaijin (左大臣, the minister of the left) with two hishimochi (菱餅; diamond-shaped rice cakes) on hishidai (菱台; diamond-shaped stands) in between. Fifth tier: three seated figures between sakura cherry blossom and tachibana citrus trees are helpers or protectors of the emperor and empress known as shichō (仕丁) consisting of nakijōgo (泣き上戸; crying drinker), okorijōgo (怒り上戸; angry drinker) and waraijōgo (笑い上戸; laughing drinker).
Fan-shaped wood plaque with a calendar of 1936 hidden under a lantern. Also included on the plaque, is a rear view of a standing female dressed in a kimono looking at the cherry blossoms in front of her. Her black hair is tied up in a bun with metal hair adornments, foil-like paper hair adornments, and a bow. The kimono is a floral pattern with white flowers having yellow centres on a light blue background with another part of her kimono having five-petalled gold flowers on a red background.
A light yellow-brown woven coil basket with a flat, circular bottom, slightly flared sides, and a flat lid. The basket and lid each have three short bands of purple, while the lid has an additional three bands of purple wool woven into it.
Plains style headdress with black felt skullcap and bright blue headband. Downy yellow-green feathers glued onto bottoms of large light white bonnet feathers with dark brown tips, and having downy white feathers in the middle wrapped in red yarn at the bottom. Feathers attached to band with a shoelace. Front of bonnet beaded with three yellow centred triangles outlined with red, dark blue, orange, brown, and light blue on a white background. Two beaded circles are at either ends of the front beaded band. The beaded circles consist of a design of four arrows pointing toward the klight blue bead centre, starting from the top and going clock-wise: red, black, red, and black, on a white background and interconnected with a light blue circular line. Four rabbit fur strips, two dangling from each side.