Woman’s embroidered hat or headdress, consisting of a skull cap with a long, wide ‘tail’ or extension in the back. The skull cap is made of black cotton textile, which is gathered at the top to fit the shape of the head, and there is an elaborate embroidered, crown-like topknot in the centre. The ‘tail’ or extension is attached to the back of the cap from approximately ear to ear and tapers to a narrow, squared-off end at the wearer’s waist. There is a triangular embroidered motif at the centre back where the extension meets the cap at the base of the skull. On the extension, triangular and diamond-shaped embroidered motifs are worked in bright pink and red silk floss, with small accents of green and yellow, and are arranged horizontally in narrow rows down the length of the extension. The embroidery stitches are so densely worked that very little of the background textile is visible. The extension is backed with a coarsely woven textile made of a bast fibre, perhaps jute. There is a small amount of silver thread embroidery on the crown.

Gray animal mask with fabric over metal and wood frame. The animal has striped horns, cone-shaped ears, sculpted eyes and protruding snout with open nostrils and mouth. The details, (such as striped horns, beige eyes, red mouth) are added with paint. The inside is unpainted.

Hat in pillbox style made of black silk. The hat is oval as viewed from the top, and the top is ridged. An extra flap of fabric folds against the front and sides. The flap finishes in rounded ends on the sides, which are held up with dark purple ties that are tied at the top of the hat, and a point at the centre over a mottled green bead attached near the rim. Lined with blue fabric, which is painted with an inscription in chinese characters at the centre.

Black and red version of the print. Depicted are: a left-facing man at the far right of the image; a right-facing raven at the far left of the image; and a vertical central halibut with its head toward the top of the image. The image itself is centred horizontally and its vertical orientation is further toward the top than the bottom of the paper. Artist name signed in pencil at lower right below image.

Over-dress in two pieces joined by black embroidery. Black, plain weave with wide bands at ends, in dark red, white, and black, with three rows of animal motifs. Two thinner multi-coloured bands of stripes are between. Half of outer border is yellow with white, pink and black dots, other half is orange with white, black and dark red dots.

Loom (parts a-c) consisting of rectangular pieces of wood (part a) with semi-circular indentations on each end. Attached to the middle of the wood is a woven piece of striped fabric in blue, white, pink and yellow that unravels into twisted threads. There is a small cylindrical piece of wood wrapped in white threads. Part b is a wool back strap rectangular in shape sewn together with rounded side. Part c is a wooden loom bar rectangular in shape with triangular ends.

Short, rectangular shaped band consisting of blue, red, green, yellow, pink and white stripes. Attached at one end is a large cluster of finely twisted, coloured twine.

Rectangular shaped bag with a thin red and white braided wool strap with three red tassels hanging from the bottom. The bag has repeated black stripe with cream patterns of animals, flowers and geometric shapes with blue, red, green, black and purple detailing, all on a red ground. There is a slightly curved, slit opening at the top edged with white piping.

Lavishly embellished robe, made from light beige heavy silk brocade fabric, woven with silver and gold metallic threads, incorporating floral motifs and roundels. The brocade has been cut and pieced to create a symmetrical placement of the motifs. The robe has long, straight sleeves and mandarin collar. The robe closes asymmetrically in the front (left over right), with buttons and loops at the neck at centre front, at the upper chest on the right side, under the right sleeve and at the waist side seam. All edges (neck, front, hem and cuffs) are trimmed with brightly coloured, finely embroidered and soft brown fur. Two rows of brightly coloured, finely embroidered bands encircle the robe at hip level. The robe is very heavy, long and voluminous. Lined with bright blue and turquoise silk damask textiles.

Conical shaped wool hat with a beige tassel at the top and two dangling from the tips of the triangular shaped earflaps. The hat has repeating red and brown horizontal stripes with animals, flowers and geometric shapes in green, red, cream and blue all on a beige ground. The bottom is edged in blue piping.