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A headdress (part a) made of inlaid iridescent bright blue and darker blue-purple kingfisher feathers outlined with metal in a floral pattern. Also decorated with red, green, and white pompoms. The veil is strands of long white beads accentuated with red and green beads. A metal rectangle (part b) has come unhinged from the headdress. There is a dark blue feather (part c) and a turquoise feather (part d) which were in a folded piece of paper containing the manufacturer's information.
Floor-length red silk robe with embroidery. The robe opens on the right front, fastened together by two frog fasteners (ornamental braiding) at the neck and two more midway on the side. The neck is rounded, surrounded by two borders; a black border with blue flowers and a linear green, blue and purple border. The borders angle down the right side opening of the robe and continue along the bottom edge. The end of each sleeve has three borders; cream with a floral pattern, black with blue flowers and multicoloured linear. The pattern on the body of the robe is bunches of green and yellow flowers with leaves and roots on a red background. Amidst the flowers are multicoloured butterflies. The pattern and borders continue on the back side. The inside lining is green silk.
Black hat with a geometric shape of five exterior sides with two interior sides, forming a flat horizontal top. Top flares downward and outward and then angles back downward and inward for a downward point at either side, with the interior sides angling back upward and inward. There is a brass bar with openwork along the top. Dark hair is shaped into an oval where the head is supposed to fit.
A headdress with a high vertical rounded front and flat top sloping downward to the back which is a shorter vertical band. Frame is of wire covered with intricately interlaced bands of black silk braid and fabric. Attached to the headdress with wires, there are highly perforated and layered gold-coloured brass roundels in the shape of flowers and leaves, all inlaid with various shades of bright blue kingfisher feathers outlined with metal. On and around them, there are many ornaments mounted on wires which include the following: bats made of pearls, flowers made of pink glass, gemstones inset in metal, green stone butterflies, and a large roundel of pink quartz. From the front of the headdress, there are suspended strands of pearls with coloured stone butterflies in the middle and stone drops at the end.
Curved, metal fingernail guard. Pointed at one end, round opening at the other. Design in the metal shows a potted plant with many leaves and flowers that are decorated with blue and purple enamel.
Metal ornament depicting a flower with bright blue feather inlay.
Ornament with detailed metal work depicting a bird with bright blue feather inlay. Pin extends off the back of the ornament.
Ornament with detailed metal work of floral motifs with bright blue feather inlay. Two spiral metal decorations extend off the front, ending in a white and an orange bead. Long, thin metal pin extends off the back.
White, conical straw hat with dyed red horse hair cascading from the apex in all directions. Metal finial with a large blue bead at top of hat; attached to the side of the finial's metal holder is a long tassel of coarse black bristles with peacock feathers, stemming from a carved red and white rectangular bead. (Part b is a detached peacock feather piece.)