A shadow puppet fragment of a headdress. Black upswept hair. There is a green and red ornament.

A shadow puppet fragment of a female head, outlining the face in profile, with red and black detailing. The forehead has a horizontal black band. The eye is outlined in black extending to the back of the head with a horizontal black line. The nose curls inward to create a nostril. The mouth is outlined with red. The white hair has a black bun at the back of the head. Behind the ears, there is a black section. The neck is split with a groove in the middle.

A shadow puppet fragment of a female body. Clothing is black, red, green, and orange in a harlequin pattern. Small feet are in red boots. Wire is coiled around the neck.

A shadow puppet of a male (sheng or lead male type character, Emperor's court) (parts a-b) with a profile face in outline. Wearing clothing that is decorated in red, blue, and black with a crane(?) in a circle on the chest, and floral print on a natural-coloured background. Wire is coiled around the neck. There is an elaborate red, orange, and blue headdress (part c) that has two pompoms. Handles are made of bamboo grass. Joined in the shoulder, elbow, waist, hips, hands, and fingers with rivets.

A shadow puppet of a male (laocheng, Emperor's advisor or scholar of the court character) (parts a-b) with a big black eyes, long black eyelashes, and a black beard made of hair. Wearing clothing that is decorated in red, green, and black dragons, and floral print. Wire is coiled around the neck. There is an elaborate red and green headdress (part c) that has a face in profile at the front. Joined in the shoulder, elbow, waist, hips, hands, and fingers with rivets.

A shadow puppet of a male (wujing or military man character)(parts a-b) with a black-painted face, a prominent nose, and a down-turned red mouth. Wearing clothing that is decorated in red and green in a floral print with stripes. Wearing black boots. Wire is coiled around the neck. There is an elaborate red, green, and black headdress (part c) that has a crescent shape. Joined in the shoulder, elbow, waist, hips, hands, and fingers with rivets.

Shadow puppet of laodan or upper-class elderly woman character (parts a-b) with white hair. Wearing clothing that is decorated in red and green floral print. She is wearing shoes for bound feet. Wire is coiled around the neck. Joined in the shoulder, elbow, waist, hips, hands, and fingers with rivets. Head is part b, body is part a.

Black jacket with standing collar, long sleeves, side slits and centre opening with frog closures. The inside is unlined.

Black robe with rounded neck, slender sleeves and centre opening with gold frog closures. There are slits in the sides and back. In the front and back centre is a square badge with a left-facing egret, denoting a sixth civil rank. Also in the square are sun, bat, cloud and wave motifs in gold, pink, white, green and blue on a black ground. The inside is unlined.

Plain white cloth with blue embroidery of two cranes on either side of fruit and flower at center. To right of crane is fish, flaming circle, elephant, butterfly, deer, turtle, and lion. Landforms and waves at bottom, flowers and some clouds at top. To left of crane is small dragon, three lions, a frog and a crab, again with same landforms and water below, and flowers, clouds and symbols at top