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Cylindrical light brown coloured basket (part a) with lid (part b). Basket holds a nest of four additional baskets with lids (parts c-j). Exterior lid (part b) has a cream coloured circular design in its centre. A band of leaf(?) is woven around rim of lid (part b) and top rim of basket (part b).
Adire (indigo dyed) cloth. Composed of two panels, each made from squares with resist-dyed indigo designs. The designs are composed mainly of light blue bands composed of short lines and small circles with a band of small circles at two opposing edges. Small bits of palm leaf raffia are still found stitched along the pattern lines.
Pair of shoes made from palm leaves woven over twined palm leaf on the soles and twined fibre over the toes. The fibre over the toes alternates between off-white and pink.
Colourful circular waistband with yellow, purple, red, and blue palm fringe. Fringe is knotted to a braided band with ties and coiled together twice.
Semicircular fan with six feather panels that are attached to leaf(?) handles. Feather panels are decorated with smaller blue and red feathers near their base. White fluffed feather material is found on each panel just below the blue and red feathers. Panels are connected to each other at the bottom by a brown coloured fibre wrapped metal rectangular loop. Loop has a red and white tassel hanging from the centre.
Raft-like group of cane sections with fourteen split cane strings wrapped with split cane and resin. The back has a woven panel of five thick bands.
Tumbuan 'mask' or body costume. Conical shape made of a wooden frame and wrapped with a large piece of mulberry bark that is painted with a vertical striped pattern in dark brown, light brown and orange. Along the bottom edge is a long fringe of sennit(?) dyed red and black; the sides have two red tufts. Attached to the front is an oval shaped wooden mask covered in white clay. The face has a long forehead, protruding brow, nose and red tongue. The septum has boar tusks running through; eyes are inlaid with shell. Around the eyes and nose is black and white spotted detailing. Above the mask are black feathers, a large tuft of sennit ? dyed black and painted red and white. The top back has a fibre woven plate, an erect woven handle and a pink and blue fabric decoration with white feathers. The top sides have wooden handles painted black, red and white.
Rounded, circular flaring, fibre woven container that has a bowl shape. Exterior has intricate white beadwork on cloth backing in geometric horizontal, concentric bands. Lower beadwork is 12 cm. deep. with 'extending' beads above, and a pattern of x's, arched lines around reflective ? skin ? panels, metallic w's, upward pointing triangular crosses, crosses, red embroidered radiating v's, crosses, and double vertical lines with some panels at the centre. Upper beadwork is 3.5 cm. with a pattern of panels outlined by white beads, x's, and 'dangling' beads below.
Rounded, circular flaring, fibre woven container that has a bowl shape. Exterior has intricate white beadwork on cloth backing in geometric horizontal, concentric bands. Lower beadwork is 10 cm. deep. with 'extending' beads above, and a pattern of x's, v lines, x's, x's, x's, x's with a blue band underneath, x's, and pairs of vertical lines at the centre. Upper beadwork is 2.3 cm. with a pattern of x's, and 'dangling' beads below.
Rounded, circular flaring, fibre woven container that has a bowl shape. Exterior has intricate white beadwork on cloth backing in geometric horizontal, concentric bands. Lower beadwork is 8 cm. deep. with 'extending' beads above, and a pattern of x's, zig zags, x's, x's, x's, x's, and radiating double lines at the centre. Upper beadwork is 2 cm. with a pattern of x's and 'dangling' beads below.