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Cylindrical basket with an opening and a base that are circular. Braided rim folded inward and secured with a row of plain twining. Sides are decorated with three bands of dark brown plain twining alternating with brown plain twining.
Small circular basket with a square bottom. Base in a checker weave pattern divided into two panels by white-brown stitching. Walls are decorated with six bands; from the top: five rows of white-brown, three rows of dark brown, three rows of orange, four rows white-brown, two rows of red, one row of orange, and last band is dark brown.
Flared cylindrical basket with a circular base and a mouth yellow-brown base demarcated from the walls by raised row of alternating stitches in two yellow-brown and one brown. Sides are decorated with a wide band of light yellow, in two groupings, one of two rows and one of seven rows. Band of red-brown above with yellow-brown sideways v's top band is yellow-brown twining. Rim edge warps are folded and secured with two rows of raised twining.
Lashing rope made from twined cedar bark tied with 17 knots, which form a rectangular shape.
Cordage fragment made from a double length of cedar root. Roots have been dried and twisted or twined together.
Fan made of woven palm sheath in diagonal checker weave, each strip about 1.5 cm. wide. Fan woven in one piece with cylindrical handle which is covered with thin palm leaf(?), also woven. Body of fan shaped like inverted triangle. Band of weaving 11 cm. wide at top in which strips are 1/2 width, partially woven in open pattern, with zigzag edge at top.
Hat composed of braided strips of palm leaf sewn together with red cloth folded over the rim and stitched in place. Two strips of red cloth run over the crown in a cross shape with mutlicoloured yarn ornamenting the top, and four smaller red fabric crosses placed around the brim. A beaded band of orange, green, blue and yellow flowers on yellow with black borders is tied with blue cord around the base of the crown from which extend seven groups of white feathers. The feathers rest on the brim and are joined with lengths of orange cord, the ends, placed behind the beaded band, are knotted and extend beyond the band at the top. Along the underside of the rim are 15 beaded floral square tassels with rectangular extensions. A chin strap of blue woven band with yellow horizontal stripes has twisted and knotted ends with floral beaded square tassels attached.
A spherical orange-brown gourd with a small stalk at the top. Shallowly carved onto the sides, revealing a lighter colour than the outer skin, is a complex village scene with trees, houses, various human figures and a bull fight--the top and bottom have geometric and floral borders. Red colour has been applied in several places, as have a small number of places been blackened by burning. A jack-o'-lantern-like top with a zigzagging edge has been cut out around the stalk.
Five small rounded gourds joined together with lengths of twisted palm fibre(?), cord and yarn. Each gourd is pierced at sides near top, cord is inserted and knotted, gourd with red yarn passes through without being knotted. Each gourd has small round hole at top, and two have stoppers (parts a and d). Two undecorated gourds (parts d and e), while remaining three have external decorations: 1) deer skin, some hair remains (part a); 2) grid pattern created by wrapping orange- pink, blue, yellow and red yarn horizontally and vertically (part b); 3) grey- brown cloth with red cross stitching in eight pointed star, top and sides sewn with blue yarn, tassels at each lower corner (part c).
Simply shaped clay bowl and shank with narrow bamboo stem inserted into clay shank.