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A man’s brown winter coat, or robe, open at the front with long sleeves. The brown wool (“pusp”) is natural, undyed sheep’s wool. Around the collar and the shoulder sections there is an embroidered design in the same brown wool yarn. On the front of the coat, there are two decorative tassels on either side of the opening, near where the wearer’s upper chest would be. The tassel is sewn on to the coat at the centre point of an embroidered round design, also in the same brown wool yarn. The tassel is mainly brown but there are coloured threads wrapped around the brown thread with silver being the most predominant thread colour. At the end of the tassel, the strands are broken into four sections and there is a woven design at the end of each of the sections.
Silver coloured darning needle.
Long narrow woven sash-like garland. There are a number of traditional weaving designs including “shinguk chot” or goat horn design, “munguzyeek chot” or fly design, “birra kumba chot” or male goat’s crossed horns and “watch chot” or the hourglass drum. The main colour used in the weaving is a yellow-green. The fringe is separated out into 14 sections with 12 of those section made up of the gathering of several threads which are then wrapped with gold and silver thread. The two innermost sections are wrapped with green and red thread.
Long, narrow, woven sash or garland. The length of the garland is white, with multi-coloured and white fringe at each end, which is grouped in sections and wrapped with multi-coloured thread.
Hammered, silver, circular ornament made up of four concentric circles, each of which supports a repeating pattern of a triangular motif. Each triangle is made up of six dots or circles, widest at the base, with the single topmost dot attaching to the next concentric circle. The number of triangles in each circle increases with the increased size of each concentric circle.
Women's circular-shaped brass neck ring, open at the top. There is spiraling groove carved around the central two-thirds of the neck ring. Both ends taper at the opening and are smooth with no carving present. One tapered end curves to make a “U” shape, while the other end has a much broader bend.
Woman's short, choker-style necklace composed of six strands of oval red and round white glass beads in an alternating pattern, organized in four sections separated by three carved, flat, elliptical cow bone pieces. Each bone piece is incised with a dark brown pattern of four groups of concentric circles arranged in a line down the centre surrounded by dots. The strands are tied together at each end and there is a metal hook closure attached to the stands with fibre.
Woman's necklace composed of 15 strands of green, round, glass beads with a small repeating pattern of red, round, glass beads. All strands are knotted together at each end, and the ends are in turn knotted together to close the necklace.
Woman's necklace comprised of eight strands of beads separated and held in place by four evenly spaced long, flat cow bone ‘dividers’. The 'dividers' mark out five sections of green, red, and white round, glass beads. In the sections on either side of the central section there are also red oval glass beads. Seven of these oval red beads are also found in the first and fifth section, closest to the closure. The tie is made of blue string that is tied tightly in a knot.
Woman's necklace comprised of eight strands of beads separated and held in place by eight evenly spaced long, flat cow bone ‘dividers’, which are carved with a cross-hatch pattern. Within the 'dividers' are: six sections of red, oval glass beads, framed by white-blue beads; two sections of the same red and white-blue beads with additional circular, flat, red beads decorated with crescent moon and stars on one side and Arabic characters on the other, flanked by green white beads; and one section of red, white-blue, and green beads nearest the tie closure. The tie is made of greying thread that is tied tightly together in several knots.