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Four strands of brown reeds alternating with glass trade beads of white, black, orange, yellow, green, red, and blue strung onto synthetic twine. Large wooden bead of unusual design central piece.
Dance headdress. Multiple light brown, twisted strands of plant fibre (from an aromatic bulb rubbed with red ochre). The round fringe hangs from a circle of sinew. One section of the strands are shorter and decorated with coloured beads of yellow, red, pink, and light blue.
Short loop of twisted sinew strung with red and white trade beads which supports a pendant. This is a triangle formed by rows of red beads outlined on two sides with white beads.
Fine twisted brown sinew with very small white beads and three large transparent pieces of gemsbok leg sinew.
Nineteen rows of ostrich eggshell beads strung on sinew and tightly interwoven into a cylindrical band. Rough and discoloured, the beads are circular in shape with a hole drilled in the middle. Strung on an unbroken band.
Composed of two strips of hide as well as one horizontal and one vertical inserted bead work panel of predominantly triangular patterns, the horizontal panel has black triangles on a white background while the vertical panel has white triangles on a black background. Three looped strings of ostrich egg beads are placed on each side of the centre panel of beads. One of these sides has an additional shorter string of ostrich egg beads. On one side of the centre panel of beads, there are six short strings of black and white beads. Blue trade beads. On the other side, there are seven strings of beads.
Four strands of large and small trade beads, most of which are red. One strand has alternating beads of black with red.
Necklace made from dentalium shell interspersed with blue and pink trade beads. Rectangular piece of abalone strung as pendant, placed at the end of a string of alternating red beads and dentalium dangling form the main necklace..
One strand of beads encases a cylinder of wood and is hung as a pendant on a long single-strand of multicoloured beads. Overall colours on strand are yellow with red, blue with red, and white with black.
The necklace, with neck band width of three beads, has the majority of beads in alternating black and white, the rest alternating in red and black, and in red and white; strings of alternating white and black beads dangle from the neck band. A button secures the necklace around the neck.