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A figure of a man standing on a flat rectangular wood base. He is wearing a white, brown, and black turban-like headpiece and a red and yellow-white garment on his lower body. There is a red rectangular object attached to his right hip.
A wood female figure standing on a flat rectangular base that is painted red and green. She is wearing a red tapered hat rimmed with green which looks semi-oval-like to the sides and triangular-like to the front and back. She is wearing a yellow robe rimmed with green. Her right arm is bent perpendicularly forward, and her left arm is bent toward her waist.
A figure of a brown man with his left arm at his side, and his right arm folded out in front of him as he carries a large yellow and green cylindrical object, possibly a rolled carpet which is tied on his back. He is wearing a yellow and red headdress and a garment on his lower body.
A figure of a brown man (part a) standing in a yellow-white robe with a green front and wearing a green tapered hat rimmed with red which looks semi-oval-like to the sides and triangular-like to the front and back. He has a black beard, and he is holding a curved stick in his right hand and possibly a rectangular object in his left hand (part b), unless the rectangular object is what his broken left hand has been mounted on. He is on a flat rectangular wood base.
A figure of a brown man standing, wearing a yellow-white and black turban-like headpiece and a garment wrapped around the lower half of his body. He is on a flat rectangular wood base.
Embroidered green silk square. Circular embroidered pink and purple centre pattern resembling a fanning peacock tail with mirrors framed by multi-coloured embroidered borders. Center is framed by several embroidered square borders, mostly in yellow, white, black and dark red, with circles and mirrors. Outer borders on orange silk ground. Embroidered with untwisted silk(?). Multi-coloured tassels hang off edges, each with two cowrie shells and two red beads. Two yellow chain stitch borders and square border between are incomplete. White-yellow cotton back.
Yellow square with embroidered patterns. Centre has eight green, red and brown mirrored and dyed parrots which face each other in pairs. Nine large, stylized, brown flowers with many petals and mirror centres and multi-coloured sprays and cones. Cones are arranged singly or in fan shaped patterns. Brown floral pattern and sprays are repeated in a wide border, defined by an inner and outer narrow border and are banded with red, green and blue. Outer edge is bordered with multi-coloured triangles topped by tridents and there are mirrors between each triangle. White-yellow backing consists of two triangles stitched together; one rectangle has a narrow woven red edge the other in blue. Hanging loops are on each corner. Some embroidery stitches pass through the backing.
Silk square, with a yellow centre and purple border. Centre embroidered with sixteen red, green and white peacocks and mirror-centred flowers it is bordered by mirror-centred flowers and leaves. The pattern is edged with a row of multi-coloured undulating ovoids and chevrons, embroidered with untwisted silk(?); backed with white-yellow cotton and bound with red cotton. Hanging loops present on the two lower corners.
Rectangle hanging composed of one long and one short (on left side as seen) pieces of textile, with seven pentagonal leaves stitched on one long side. The background is red cotton, lined with yellow-white cotton(?). A narrow black cotton(?) band separates the rectangle and leaves. There are three hanging loops on top corners and centre. Rectangle is heavily embroidered with varying sizes of mirrors which form eight distinct unstructured patterns. On either side of the centre is a pattern: one is on an orange embroidered background and the other is on blue. A border of closely spaced mirrors, enclosed in two undulating black lines, encloses the patterns: the top and sides of the rectangle are embroidered with multi-coloured closely spaced diamonds and inverted triangles; seven mirrored and embroidered leaves are stitched to the bottom edge. Three alternate leaves are centred with a large rectangular mirror; two of which are framed in silver coloured metal and the third one with pink metal. Two of the other leaves may represent stylized peacocks, and two have unstructured mirrored patterns. Each leaf is ordered with closely spaced mirrors enclosed in two undulating black lines. Yellow embroidery thread rayon(?) is seen throughout.
Rectangle silk textile with repeating horizontal rows of woven, metallic patterned ovals, each with two heart-shaped leaves; one leaf has diaper pattern, one has short broken lines, background of narrow vertical lines. Alternate rows of ovals face in opposite directions. Top and bottom are unfinished, sides are selvage.