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Jacket, girl's, made of dark blue wool with red and green applique. There are green edges on the pockets, cuffs, and front edges. A band of red applique is attachee parallel to the green. Diamond-shaped elbow patches are sewn to the jacket at the corners. The jacket is embroidered over the red and green applique, on the front, on the pockets, on the cuffs and on the diamond patches in light blue, white, yellow, and green cotton thread.
Woven belt with blue edges. Finished with one braided end with braids sewn together and one loom cord end. Thin woven ties in same colours attached to both ends. The belt is warp faced and warp patterned. The pattern weave is a three span float complementary weave in the pink and maroon area and reverses on the other side. Overall pattern is diamond shaped. Three green and yellow strips in same pattern near edges and in middle. The commercial wool has an extra twist added by hand spindle; white yarn is a two ply handspun yarn.
The white textile has a brown brocade pattern and is composed of three full loom widths and a part of a fourth. A decorative figure eight stitch in two alternating colours joins the loom widths. Each panel alternates areas of lighter and darker supplementary wefts. The pattern of nested diamonds with straight and serrated edges entirely covers the cloth in rows. The entire fabric is cut in two, transverse to the warp direction, and crudely sewn together, matching up the designs. There are no warp selvedges. S-spun-warp and weft of ground cloth. S and z spun supplementary weft.
Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: large head (part b) fits into body clothed in shirt and skirt (part a), and a control rod (part c) with a long shaft that passes through the body and fits into the neck of the figure's head. The body has jointed arms, each with a long controlling rod attached. The figure has a light yellow face, and a headdress that winds around the head in a spiral. White eyes with red irises, and pointed nose. Black moustache and beard. One row of teeth on upper jaw. Hands point at right angles to arms; black bracelet at wrist. Clothing consists of a yellow, green and off-white geometric print skirt with a white, collared shirt that has folded cuffs.
Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: large head (part b) fits into body with skirt (part a), and a control rod (part c) with a long shaft that passes through the body and fits into the neck of the figure's head. The body has jointed arms, each with a long controlling rod attached. The figure has a green face, white eyes with red irises, and black nostrils. The figure also has a small black moustache and a thin beard, as well as a mouth that curves slightly upwards with fangs at each corner. Gold sumping and gold jamang present. Upper body painted green; breast and waist area bulging. Off-white cotton skirt. On the figure's right hand, the fingers are straight and the thumb points out. On the figure's left hand, the fingers and thumb all point down.
Small round gourd container (parts a), extensively incised with patterns burned with semi-circular design running along the top edge. Parallel lines run from collar to base with a circle detailed at the bottom. Gourd is pale orange with black markings. Circular, disc shaped, basketry lid (part b); small handle made of a thick piece of leather.
Rectangular textile fragment with brown painted interlocking birds, hooks and triangles arranged in diagonal rows on an off-white plain weave cotton. One weft selvedge present and 3 cut edges. Z-spun, 2 plied s yarns.
Piece of yellow (originally) slit tapestry border. Detailed bird forms, with a long hooked beak and comb-like tail feathers are attached to step triangles and repeated in alternating shades of reds and yellows. The bird has an outlined eye and this same form is repeated in the corners of the triangles. Narrow red borders outline the bird pattern band. The tapestry figures are not outlined. Z-spun, 2 plied s yarns; a few red threads z-spun.
A fragmentary slit tapestry border in two reds and yellow with attached fringe. The main band has interlocking red and yellow serpent bodies with serrated edges and black outlining. Narrow bands with interlocking hooks in red and light red are sewn to both sides and a separately woven red fringe is attached to one outer edge. More coarsely woven than most. Very thick warps of fringe are replied z after z-spin and 2 ply s.
An irregular cut piece of natural brown cotton with red and brown deer arranged alternately in a rectangular grid. The grid is defined by alternating red and brown lines in warp and weft directions. The deer is shown in profile, with tail, two antlers and a speckled body. Two original edges remain: a warp selvedge with heading cords and a weft selvedge that appears to be hemmed with ancient thread. Z-spun single in warp; s-spun singles in weft; z-spun, singles in weft; z-spun, two ply alpaca yarns.