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Fan that opens to a full circle and is made of off-white parchment and red, brown and green leather. The fan is rectangular when closed with the pleated body of the fan contained between an extension of the two handles. The fan is secured when shut by a leather strap with a toggle fastening. The leatherbound handles are joined at their ends by a leather loop and toggle. The parchment body of the fan is stitched to a rigid leather-carved frame extending along the sides when closed and the end. The parchment body of the fan is made up of two pieces stitched together. The stitching throughout is of leather thong. The decoration consists of geometric shapes cut into the strap. There is stitching in a contrasting colour on the sides and end of the closed fan. Multi-coloured bands of leather thong encircle or are woven around the handles.
Tapa cloth with geometric patterns of straight lines and zigzags. Predominant patterns are width-wise with dark brown diagonal lines, zigzags, and triangles.
Cylindrical wooden pot base stained black, flared at top to accommodate base of pot. Rim plain, sides decorated by four panels each consisting of three carved figures incorporating human and frog elements. Heads are human and carved in a naturalistic fashion; zigzag arrangement of arms and legs and lozenge-shaped belly resemble an abstract frog. Panels separated by four rectangular openings in base.
Decorative pipe carved from white-grey tusk. Top of pipe features a carving of a man in a kayak following behind a walrus-like animal. Sides of pipe are etched with images of sea and land animals coloured with black and ochre pigments. Pipe bowl protrudes vertically from the end of the stem, resembling a steam train smokestack.
Palm leaf manuscript with red wood covers and a long red cord. There is a decorative ivory rosette securing one end of the red cord fastener. The inside pages are covered in script and held in position by the threaded cord.
A hanging scroll rubbing on paper, of an outdoor scene showing one scholar painting while four others are watching. In the near distance, there are three other male figures in the water. In the foreground, there are two male servants and a donkey near a plum tree. Six lines of poetry are written on the upper right corner in cursive style. The image has an orange-yellow border outlined with green at the top and at the bottom. The scroll has a plain cream-coloured silk backing outlined with black and pink paper. There is a semi-cylindrical rod at the top with a white string going through two holes. There is a cylindrical rod weight at the bottom covered with dark blue patterned fabric.