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A light brown round basket with a simple open weave pattern and a wide mouth. Plaited handle atttached from one side curving upward to attach to the other side. Flat circular lid is attached to the mouth of the basket.
Rectangular basket with plaited bottom that curves upward to twined walls whose warp it made of the strips of the base. Four dark bands of decoration go around walls; the bands are in groups of two and separate the height into thirds.
A piece with many strands of plant fibre with one end tightly stitched together with braided strips.
Light-brown woven mask with bulbous nose and bushy beard. The back of the mask has large woven cables in diagonal rows. The front of the mask has tightly woven cables is rows.
Dark-brown woven mask with bulbous nose, bushy beard, and five cone-like projections on top of the head that are decorated with red, black, and white clay. The back of the mask has large woven cables in diagonal rows. The front of the mask has tightly woven cables in triangular patterns.
Long rectangular book with dark brown wooden cover held together by a piece of string that is strung through the pages, is wound around one end, and is secured by a coin attached to a string. Pages inside are made of palm leaf and are covered with light black Sinhala script.
Two rectangular woven pouches that fit together, with one partly inside the other, and with openings on the short side of each one. The edges at the opening are somewaht u-shaped. The basketry is undecorated.
Circular basket that tapers slightly towards the bottom and is raised slightly on a braided palm leaf(?) pedestal foot. Top rim of basket has two thick bands of twisted palm leaf(?). There is a large zigzag design around the middle of the basket. The design is made with black coloured bands of woven wood fibre(?). Red bands of wool fibre(?) are located at the top and bottom of each triangular section.
Long thin panels linked together with a string and two coin-like metal pieces at both ends. The coin-like pieces are inscribed with characters. There are seven flat inner panels with the top one lighter in colour than the rest and the bottom one upside down. One side of each inner panel has a line of writing characters. The other side of each inner panel is decorated with two pictures of dancing figures in costume with a landscape backdrop. In between these two pictures, there is a square with a diagonal floral design. At either ends of each inner panel is a w-shaped floral design separated from the picture by vertical lines. There are two outer panels, more rounded on one side, which has a rhombus pattern around which there is a floral design. The outer panels are red-brown with the design engraved to reveal a lighter brown. The pictures on the inner panels are black on brown.
A basket made from palm leaf strips vertically stitched together with fibre to create a bowl-shape. The outer surface is almost entirely covered with beadwork over a dark brown-black cloth. The circular base is left un-beaded.