A knotted mesh plant fibre bag with rope cording.

A lightly coloured shuttle with a point inside the middle and two prong-like extensions at the bottom.

A plain flat piece of metal curved to make a bracelet. On one side the ends taper down to half their width so as to overlap each other. From each end a coil extends to wrap around the other end to link the bracelet together.

Puppet with painted wooden head, hands, legs, and feet. Is dressed in a white tunic and padded pants. Tunic is longer at the back than in the front. Head of puppet has painted green hair with a black cap and a protruding braided stripe of red and black fibre.

Small figure with bulbous head and round tubular bottom. Face is green, red, yellow, and black. Figure has an exaggerated eyebrow ridges, wide eyes, a small nose, and an opened mouth. Red fibre extends from under the nose down to the chin. A red fibre beard extends from the chin. The bottom portion of figure is light green.

Round coin with a four-sided hole in the centre, and a rim around the outer edge and the centre hole. The obverse has four characters, and the reverse has two characters. Kangxi tongbao (top-bottom right left) in Chinese characters are on the obverse; tai left in Manchu, tai right in Chinese (mintmark) are on the reverse. Centre hole is not square; pits in the rims.

Round coin with a four-sided hole in the centre, and a rim around the outer edge and the centre hole. The obverse has four characters, and the reverse has two characters. Kangxi tongbao (top-bottom right left) in Chinese characters are on the obverse; tai left in Manchu, tai right in Chinese (mintmark) are on the reverse. Pits in the rim obverse right, reverse top-left, and right to right-bottom; extra metal is in the centre hole.

Tan woven vest with design. The vest is rectangular in shape with a centre front opening. On the lower back are woven bands of various width with diamond motifs in blue and red. The inside is unlined.

Pouch with a body that angles upwards on the sides from a flat base and is flat on top with a pocket and flap at the front centre. A band is sewn to one side and has a two snap closure on the other side. The body is embroidered with geometric patterns in grey, pruple and black, and the band is embroidered with repeated patterns in pink, red, orange, green, blue, purple, brown and black. Both the body and the strap have red edging.

Hand puppet representing the character Xu Wen (bearded official). Costumed cloth hand puppet with carved, painted wooden head, hands, and feet. Varnished green face with orange cheeks, black hair and details. Black hair beard (26 cm long) attached below nose; sideburns. Body (part a) is undyed cotton flaps, attaching around head, light blue hands with holes through sideways, stuffed legs, white and light blue soled black boots. Pasted and stitched red silk robe (part b) with three centre, paper reinforced front flaps, with centre mirror, brocade circle, turquoise and white fur trim. Yellow brocade at front edges, yellow strip inside front. Decorations include yellow silk insets along blue borders, green and light blue silk flower-like insets with metal sequins, tin edged mirrors and silver and gold foil wrapped thread. Yellow cord trim at orange and blue stand up collar. White cord tie at neck, otherwise costume is detachable.