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Heavy white rectangular blanket consisting of six woven strips, stitched together along the long edges. Entire blanket is covered in black geometric designs with brown, yellow and white highlights throughout. Designs consist of diamonds, rectangles, triangles, plain and dotted lines, zigzags, squares and dot motifs. Two wide black bands run through centre of blanket with alternating triangle and diamond motif; trimmed with squares and an infinity symbol-like design. Sides have wide brown bands with white and black diamonds throughout, trimmed in black. There are seven tassels on each side; top and bottom edges are trimmed with black.
Heavy white rectangular blanket consisting of two panels stitched together in the centre, along the long edge; each panel is made up of three woven horizontal strips. Band decorates section where two panels meet; band is brown with a yellow line through the centre, rows of white squares on either side. Entire blanket is covered in black geometric designs with brown, yellow and white highlights throughout. Designs consist of diamonds, triangles, rectangles, "X" shapes, squares and dot motifs. Sides have wide brown bands, trimmed in black. There are seven sets of two tassels on each side; top and bottom edges are trimmed with black. (Cotton strip sewn onto back, for hanging purposes).
Three-legged drum. Cylindrical body, tapering in slightly toward a raised band horizontal around the drum. The base has three feet. The animal hide with fur is stretched across the end and fits over sticks inserted in the wood. A thin band of animal skin is woven around the wood pegs in a zigzag pattern to hold the skin in place.
Miniature mask in bronze. Face is oblong in shape, wide at temples, narrowing toward chin. Face has heavily lidded eyes, almost closed but for a slight opening in the right eye cut through the metal to the back of the piece. Brows are arched. Nose is long, relatively flat, with protruding nostrils. Lips are rectangular in shape and also protrude, as does a braided moustache with rolled tips. A small mark sits on the cheek below the left eye. A headband sits across the forehead, behind which are several rows of braided hair, rolled at the front. Interior of mask is concave.
Bronze bracelet. Piece is slightly oblong in width, with curled ends at back opening, and three protruding circles at front with jingling noisemakers in their hollow centres. The top front is engraved with small loops and linear designs on the bracelet and an uneven pattern of dots on the protruding circles, which also appear on their back-side.
Small leather container. Object is circular and bulbous at bottom, with base tied to body by unbleached cotton thread. A long closed neck tops the container, held together by the same thread. Dark brown dye colours the leather under the seams, as well a single stripe on the neck. An interior support, unseen, gives stiffness to the pouch. A thin, supple thong of leather serves as a handle and is tied to the base of the pouch in two areas, and runs through flaps on the neck that hold it in place. This strap is broken.
Bracelet. A grouping of dyed black, thin grass stems(?), uniform in shape, formed into a circle and held in place with thick coils of the same material.
Seven thick glass beads strung on a long copper wire. The beads are roughly cut, some with a bright sheen, others dull, tubular in shape, with flat ends. Colouring is light grey with irregular lines of dark blue. A single bead at one end is thinner than the rest, and includes a dark red stripe. The copper wire extends well beyond the beads, knotted and twisted back on itself.
Necklace of thick glass beads strung on a metal wire. The beads are roughly cut, most are dull in sheen, tubular in shape, with flat ends. Colouring is mottled green with irregular lines of dark purple. A single bead at front centre is round, light brown-grey, with uneven stripes of brown and black. Necklace sits in a rounded position due to the shape of the wire, and closes with a hook and loop.
Necklace of thick glass beads strung on a cord of plant fibre. Beads are roughly cut with a dull sheen. Top portion of necklace is filled with tubular beads in a light grey-brown with stripes of blue and red-brown. Bottom front of necklace is made of slightly larger beads, also tubular with an uneven surface, in colours of blue, primarily, with stripes of yellow and green, as well as some orange beads and yellow beads also with stripes.