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Case composed of two rectangles of cardboard covered in leather and folded against each other. One side of the case contains a mirror on the inside, and both sides are joined with a strip of leather attached at the top centre of each. A loop is created at the centre of the leather strip by a band of twisted red leather. The outside of the case is painted red with a roughly symmetrical geometric design in carbon ink.
Spoon carved from one piece of wood with a shallow bowl that has a pointed tip, a handle with a roughly circular tip, and designs in poker work featuring bands on the handle where it meets the bowl and a triangular shape at the bowl tip as well as two lines that border the bowl rim.
Spoon made from one half of a gourd with poker work designs applied to the inner surfaces. Several lines are burnt into the handle edges, the tip of the handle is blackened, and the edges of the bowl are blackened with a series of lines at the front centre of the bowl edge. A symmetrical design consisting of two v shapes and two crescent shapes joined by a darkened area decorates the inner bowl and an x shape ornaments the bowl where it tapers to a handle. The inner handle is decorated with two lines tha run lengthwise.
Plain clear glass vial with a flat wide semi-hemispherical base and a tall, cylindrical tapering neck. On top is a disc shaped, everted rim. The outer surface has a shiny coating.
Rectangular flared coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with double looped border. Parallel slat base construction. Upper basket is almost fully beaded, three sides have horizontal bands of cat-tail grass (?) and dark cherry bark, alternating with plain cat-tail grass (?). Last two rows of plain cat-tail grass (?). On fourth side, top row is cat-tail grass (?) and dark cherry bark, then horizontal rows alternate between dark cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?), each row of beads decreasing in size. The lower quarter of the basket is undecorated.
Blue damask silk jacket with embroidery. The jacket has a short standing collar, long wide sleeves and side opening with frog closures. Around the neck, side opening and bottom hem is a scalloped border with scenes of landscape and human figures on cream ground. Alongside the borders are orange and yellow stripes and floral trim. Around the sleeves is a cream band with scenes of landscape and human figures. The damask is woven containing the Taoist symbols of the Eight Immortals. The inside is lined with orange damask silk woven containing cloud and floral motifs.
Short red jacket with embroidery. The jacket has a standing collar, long tapered sleeves and centre opening with frog closures and a metal clasp. Around the neck is a black scalloped border with butterfly, bat, chrysanthemum, bamboo and fruit motifs, edged with white floral trim. On the front and back are peony, butterfly, bat, bamboo, phoenix and prunus motifs on red ground. The bottom hem is edged with green. The sleeves have striped bands in black, blue, purple, cream and green. Embroidered on the front of the bands are butterfly, spider, dragon fly, bat and cricket motifs. On the back of the bands are peaches, pomegranate, ‘Buddha’s hand’ and berry motifs. The inside is lined with green silk.
Diamond shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with double looped border. Imbricated design of square with diamond centers and pyramid shapes on three sides, in red cherry bark with cat-tail grass and diamond in dark cherry bark with red center, and on next side is black cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?) and red cherry bark diamond with dark cherry bark center, repeats for two other sides.
Small rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with attached lid. Parallel splint base and lid construction. Beaded rows in red cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), dark cherry bark, and cat-tail grass (?), repeated twice. Lid has similar pattern with outer rim in cat-tail grass (?). Skin tie holds lid to basket. Skin ties on front and back, most broken off.
Lamp with a siren with bird's legs and feet depicted in profile on the discus. She holds a fillet in her hand. The lamp is one-wicked and saucer-shaped with two holes, one to one side of the discus, and the other at the nozzle.