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Part of a necklace ? or headdress ? composed of pieces of metal welded into a tiara-like form. Two rods of copper and one of brass are curve upwards from the centre to several joined cylindrical brass beads at the sides. Two brass buttons and three round brass beads are soldered to the rods at the centre.
Female stuffed doll in a bead decorated black coat and red skirt stands on rectangular wood feet. The head is a stuffed and painted piece of canvas with a painted mop-like trim sewn on around the top. A piece of cow hide with hair is wrapped around her shoulders, as are strands of black and white beads and seeds. In her hand, she holds a white hair brush with bead worked base. The legs appear to be wood are covered with a black fabric.
Beaded necklace with one square panel hanging on a long double string of green, yellow and black beads linked together at regular intervals with white bead circles. The panel is filled with a multicoloured house motif within a white ground and has a bottom trim of a double string of blue beads, below which hangs a band of white crochet-like beadwork.
Beaded necklace (or head band ?) consisting of four square sections of beadwork strung together with large brown seeds and beads of different sizes and colours. Diamond, chevron and linear motifs in red, green, orange, blue and black decorate each of the white sections with crochet-like upper and lower borders. The one larger section has two brass bells hanging from the bottom.
Beaded anklet with crochet-like fringe. Strings of white, red, navy blue, light blue, pink, yellow and green beads are tightly wound around a bundle of brown fibre so that the beads create a geometric pattern at the front and leave the binding and fibres visible at the back. The anklet is flexible and bends to fasten at the ends with a brown plastic button through a blue bead loop.
Rectangular beaded bracelet. Wide band of beadwork has three lines of repeated multi-coloured motifs and a finishing black bead trim at each end. One long edge of the bead rectangle is stitched to a length of rope that bends around to fasten with two large black beads and a loop.
Beaded white headband with chin strap attached at sides. The headband has a top band of tight beadwork with square cut-outs and a bottom fringe of linked beads but at the front there is also a central band of ornate crochet-like beading that makes it wider than at the back. The chin strap has two square cut-outs on either side and a letter in black, orange and green at the height of each cheek ( "N" or "Z").
Fringed amulet with knotted skin ties. Numerous strands of twined brown rope, each with a loop of five white beads at the bottom, are stitched between rectangular pieces of thick canvas with dark beading on the front and at edges. One strand of white beads is looped across the top of the fringe. Each of the ties is knotted into a large loop at the loose end, one loops through a large button, the other loops over the button.
Fringed amulet with skin ties knotted through beaded canvas. Numerous strands of twined brown rope, each with a loop of four black beads at the bottom, are stitched between rectangular pieces of thick canvas with dark beading on the front and at edges. One strand of white beads is looped across the top of the fringe.
Beaded neck ring. Strings of beads are coiled around a thick cord of rope ? in a pattern of solid areas of blue and black divided with rings of yellow, white and orange. Brown wool ties, thread through a green bead, are knotted together and tied off with two green beads each at the ends.