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Two skeins of heavy off-white wool (parts a-b), and some smaller pieces of wool (part c).
Textile is woven of heavy wool on a warp of horse hair(?), half in a wide blue and tan stripe pattern, and half in a series of diamonds filled with coloured patterning in red, dark blue, tan, pink and yellow. Underside shows colours with less fading, and holds the end threads. Fringe appears to be horse hair warp ends.
Fragment of a mountain goat twill weave blanket. Three of the edges are cut. Strips of red fabric and black fabric are woven into the twill; the red strips go across one direction, the black stips run across the other.
Hide jacket with bead work and fringe. The jacket has a short standing collar, long cuffed sleeves and centre opening with hook and eye closures. On the front is a deep ‘U’ shape beneath the collar with a beaded floral motif on black appliqué fabric. There are two pockets on the lower front. There are beaded patches on the front, pockets, shoulders and upper back. Patches include floral motifs, fish skeleton and rectangular shapes. There is fringe on the ‘U’ shape, sleeves and upper back. There are braids of brown hair attached to the back of each shoulder. The inside is unlined.
A pair (parts a-b) of man’s long tubular heel-less wool socks decorated with multi-coloured designs. The interlooped fabric is very strong, and dense, and it has almost no stretch. The toes of the socks are embellished with brown chevron designs on an off-white ground. From the ankle to the knee, there are bands of stylized floral, and abstract shapes worked in green, purple, red, orange, and pink, some on a brown background while some on an off-white background. The tops are finished with a band of looped yarn and tassels made from twisted yarn. The two socks are identical in size, colour, and design.
Spear with triangular spearhead that has a short cylindrical shaft with two raised bands at the top. The spear is secured to the long wooden shaft with woven stem ? decorated with horse hair that points towards the end of the shaft. The wooden shaft has been painted black.
A woman’s headdress consisting of a crown and a broad panel that hangs down along the back. It is shaped from a piece of coarsely woven dark brown and blue textile and is heavily decorated with cowrie shells, red and white glass beads, and embroidery. The crown portion is embellished with closely-spaced rows of cowrie shells and a central strip of geometric shapes formed from red and white glass beads. There is a large brown and orange pom pom at the centre back. The “tail” is decorated with scattered small buttons of various kinds and small silver diamond-shaped ornaments. A costume jewelry brooch (gold with red and blue stones) is pinned in the centre. There is a strip of embroidered geometric shapes at the end of the “tail", and the bottom edge is finished with a braided fringe formed from the warp threads of the textile.
A woman’s headdress made from coarsely woven dark brown wool textile. Consisting of a headband and an attached narrow “tail” or streamer that hangs down the back. Lavishly decorated with cowrie shells, red, and white glass beads, buttons, and embroidery. The headband is embellished with two rows of cowrie shells separated by a row of red glass beads. The bottom edge of the headband is finished with multi-coloured embroidery resembling a braid. The “tail” is trimmed with many buttons, red, and white glass beads, and cowrie shells forming floral and geometric shapes. The bottom is fringed (about 13.5 cm) and the side edges are finished with red, blue, and yellow-green embroidery resembling a braid. The textile used to construct the headband is woven in plain weave while the streamer is made from warp yarns which have been braided and loosely woven together to form a fabric.
Very long, narrow, black and grey textile, decorated with many horizontal rows of resist-dyed or painted red disks that are overprinted or stamped with black cross-shaped motifs, like petals of a flower. Sections woven with wool or goat hair yarns alternate with sections woven with cotton yarns. Long black fringes at each end are made by tightly twisting the warp yarns.
A saddlebag constructed from a long continuous length of off-white striped wool canvas, which is folded and seamed onto itself at each end to form a pair of bags of equal size (panniers). The fronts of both bags, as well as the “bridge” that separates the two bags, are decorated with large rectangular panels of very finely knotted pile weaving that is worked on the canvas. The piece is tightly woven and quite stiff. The design motifs on the pile woven sections is consisting of octagonal and other geometric forms with shades of red, and brown predominating. The outside edges of the saddle bag are bound with braided brown goat or camel hair and the opening of each bag is finished with dense loops of braided goat or camel hair. There are colourful tassels at the corners and on the back of one bag, a length of brown cotton twill tape is attached.