Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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Piece of hand made paper. Off-white paper with red and green Japanese maple leaves and multicoloured butterflies embedded in the paper.
Part (a) is a long tear drop shaped plywood with three dimensional carved wood head attached centre front. Face has eyes outlined in red seeds, hook nose with open nostrils and long feather and fibre rope through wide indented mouth. Back board and head painted with geometric designs in brown, gold, white and black. White feathers double fringe attach to perimeter with twisted fibre band. Secondary face on board has wide smiling mouth. Attached black and white feather, red seed medallion top piece, back has support material of hat and ridge in wood. Four flat wood leaf shapes (b-e) with black and white zigzag markings, cut white feather surrounds them, attached at an angle to a stick bound with fibre and white feather down.
Vertical print depicting a dragon in orange, green, red, yellow, and purple surrounded by clouds. The image is printed in black ink on a rectangular piece of light brown-yellow paper; the colours were added in paint. The dragon's head is at the bottom; his tail ends at the top.
Set of cardboard collars (parts a-j) pasted individually onto white synthetic fibre.
Piece of red rectangular paper with a vertical column of black ink Chinese characters.
Large rectangular bark cloth with designs in red-brown, brown and black, on the natural coloured ground. The designs consist of rows of triangles inside rectangles, with various motifs inside the triangles. There are also three narrow bands--one at each end, and one off-centre.
Pair of white cotton socks lined with white cotton fabric and padded with cotton batting. Socks are joined to lining with a concealed seam, and sewn along the outer edges with a concealed seam. Ankles are straight, curving out slightly at the back, and heels are rounded. Arch is slightly raised, and toes point downwards, curving up to a point at the top of the toes. Socks are stitched firmly together at the inner top of the ankles.
Blouse that together with a skirt (Af456 b) and head-tie (Af456 c) forms an outfit. The blouse has short sleeves, rounded neck, and is composed of narrow black cotton strips sewn together; decorated with four vertical rows of gold metallic thread per strip and three horizontal rows repeated within each strip but not aligned between strips. A linear, solid geometric pattern occurs randomly, in gold, silk thread.
Bentwood chest with lid (part b). Painted distributive designs on all four sides, split symmetry on long sides. Heavy black formlines with red and black details. Complex designs on front and back; one short side has wide curving black bands with red outlined ovoids, split u's and a round eye shape; cross-hatched details. Other short side has wide curving black bands, a red circle shape to right, red split u's, ovoids and crosshatched details. Two drilled holes at top of each long side. Box lashed at one corner; metal patch nailed with square nails at top. Lid is thick and carved from a single piece of wood; rounded edges.
Round woven mask with a heavy lower fringe. The upper part of the mask covers the head and is woven of 2 ply open twine with triangular stitch knotting in alternating bands of yellow and dark brown, topped with yellow fringe. On the front are two protruding eye pieces made of woven cane with white lime ? around the edges. The mask is surrounded at the bottom with a heavy yellow fringe made of three layers. Mask is part of a costume.