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Spoon with riveted handle of mountain goat horn, carved with animal and human figures. [CAK 16/06/2009]
A small fabric doll with porcelain head, arms and legs, wearing a stiff gold top and wide flat skirt decorated with a string of beads.
Corpus Christi headdress consisting of a grass string bound wood frame over which is stretched a screen made of canvas sacking and a sheet of gold foil. Sewn onto the foil are several shells, strands of beads (glass, plastic and possibly gemstone), earrings, pins, bone hair clips, metal tokens, and coins. A large shell is attached at the top of the headdress.
Framed, large scale, ancestor portrait painted on paper. Depicted is a male in an imperial-style blue robe and jeweled blue hat, with an ornately embroidered rank badge hanging from his neck, seated in a large tiger skin covered chair or throne. The red mosaic floor has a floral patterning in shades of white, green, yellow and pink with a border motif in black. A wide band of brown paper frames the painting and the actual reddish wood frame with fibreboard backing has two ornate metal hangers at top.
Flat knitted female doll with numerous Bolivian coins roughly sewn onto the front of her orange striped sweater and pink skirt. The body is an empty knitted tube, open at the back of the neck, with stuffed green legs, arms and head with facial features and long brown braids.
Banner from a church with heavy embroidery in silver and copper thread onto a half-circle of rust coloured velvet. Metal discs, coils and lozenges, green and red glass beads, and silver painted metal buttons are used to depicted a lush garden filled with a variety of flowers and birds. The velvet is lined with a heavy, pale yellow checked cloth and a backing of the same material is sewn to it along the circular edge, leaving the flat bottom unstitched; three loop tabs project from the top.
Chimborazo-style headdress. Canvas is stretched and sewn around a rounded, grass-rope-bound wood frame that is stuck into a flat, rectangular piece of wood and mounted with red yarn onto the top of a painted paper mache cowboy hat. Numerous small objects sewn onto the red foil that covers the canvas at the front include small framed mirrors, plastic figures, strands of plastic and metal beads, wispy feathers, and paper cards. A large metal plaque decorated with a two-headed bird is tied onto the front brim of the yellow, white, blue and red hat.
Percussion instrument that consists of heavy copper cowbells attached with long, twisted leather strips to a rectangular piece of thick leather.
Front apron from a Corpus Christi dancer's costume. Large square of orange material has woven yellow, maroon and orange waistband, is bordered on three sides with long stands of blue, yellow and green wool and a fringe of brown wool, and has peach coloured satin backing. Sewn and glued onto the front are an assortment of coins, metal buttons, metal bells, an animal tooth, plastic and glass beads, decorative motifs in wool, and silver, blue and gold paper foil stars and circles.
Wood good luck charm or "figa" in the shape of a left hand clenched into a fist. The thumb is held between pointer and index fingers and all digits have silver coloured metal fingernails. Around the wrist is an embossed tin bracelet and at the end is fitted an embossed metal cap with a moveable ring in the centre.