An arrow shaft, 88 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). Light brown near the fore-shaft is darkening to black at the butt due to a black coating. The fore-shaft of black palm wood, 18 cm. long, is inserted into the shaft and bound with a woven sleeve of rattan 1.5 cm. wide. The fore-shaft is incised with dots and zigzag lines. The long point is made of solid bone, protruding 6.5 cm. beyond the fore-shaft and bound to it with a band of bark cord 10 cm. wide and a sleeve of woven rattan 1.5 cm. wide coated with red and yellow ? ochre.

Shorts have a drawstring waist with an orange band around the waist and legs. The back is decorated with starburst and flower shapes with horseshoe shapes on each side. Front is decorated with horseshoe motif and male figure outlined in white braid inside. Around waist are rows of fine yellow braid, sewn by machine.

Rectangular black cloth with a multi-coloured yarn tassel on each corner. Narrow crocheted edging alternating bright colours extends across the two hemmed ends and partially around the corners. The colours are shades of red, orange, yellow, green and blue.

Short black jacket with long sleeves and a half collar. The jacket is decorated with four coloured tassel-like ties in pink, green and yellow arranged on each side of the front opening and the sleeve hems are edged with coloured crochet. The lower jacket edge and collar have white facings.

Loom (part a-g) consisting of a partly woven belt with unwoven warps, attached shedding devices and accompanying wooden and bone tools. The symmetrically striped warp and belt section has three chevron bands flanked by rainbow colour stripes set against a dark red ground. There are cylindrical loom bars at each end; the bottom bar is part c. In the middle are three sticks with string heddles and a shed roll (part b). In addition, there is one stick with a flattened point and another straight (part d), round stick for rolling the cloth (part e). Two small skeins of blue yarn extend from each side of the woven web at the final row. There is a slightly smoothed bone pick (part f) and a length of brown cords (part g) is used to tie the bundle together.

Long rectangular shawl made of three rectangular strips of hand woven black cotton cloth machine stitched together to make one large cloth. There are stylized designs hand embroidered in darning stitch, depicting various sizes of elephant, butterfly, bird and flower-like forms in purple, white, orange and green. Decorative pulled thread open-work border at each end.

Hand-woven cotton belt decorated with a geometric design. The pattern consists of diamond shapes of different sizes divided by rows of plain bands of colours. A long fringe of twisted red cotton thread is left on each end. At one end this fringe has been partly broken away. Colours are red, yellow, black, red and orange.

Small woven korai grass mat of superfine regular weave. Widthwise bands of maroon, black and natural at ends of mat. Undyed, natural-coloured centre.

Utility bag of printed mill cotton with self-covered hand straps. Made of sturdy undyed mill cloth, design printed in red. One side has a seated anthro-zoomorphic figure with head of elephant and body of man with four arms, each holding distinctive object. Mouse in front of figure. Lettering in an Indian script. On the reverse side is a seated human figure in ceremonial dress with four arms, one of which holds a spear. Peacock at the figure's left side. English inscription: 'Chithra Bag Works Madras-7.'

Bag with a cross-stitch design composed of two rows of paired opposing s curves on a red ground, with a set of yellow s curves at the top and a set of blue at the bottom. There is a black cross-stitch border at the mouth and the strap is formed from a single strand of orange beads which has been folded and looped through a braided and knotted extension at the upper corner on the right, then passed through a twisted and knotted extension at the upper corner on the left. There are another two twisted extensions in the middle at the mouth. Two pompoms on a twisted cord extend from each lower corner and four beaded floral squares with rectangular extensions are attached to the bottom of the bag between the pompoms. Five similarly shaped beaded attachments are attached to the front of the body and there are three more on the strap. The sides of the bag are finished in a green cross-knit loop stitch.