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Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. I It has a truncated triangle with open checkerboard design as a pillar and a vertical open arch as a handle

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. It has a hollow lattice work as central pillar

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. It has a central pillar divided into two sections with a flat circular platform in the middle. A ring of zigzag legs in the top section and a similar ring in the lower section join top and base to central platform.

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. It has two parallel rectangular panels joined by a central bar facing each other as a pillar. These are each carved with two open X shapes one above the other.

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. It has an X shape and an open vertical arch as its pillar support.

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. I It has a vertical pillar of three disc-like forms - the ones above and below have vertical V shapes projecting out with a hollow centre and a central disc with a serrated edge. It has chips out of its upper edge.

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. I It has a female caryatid form with long bent arms holding the upper seat as a central support.

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. It has a vertical pillar of two circular forms - the ones above and below have vertical V shapes projecting out from a hollow centre. The central section is carved in the shape of a boat.

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. IIt has an abstracted female caryatid form with long bent arms holding the upper seat as a central support.

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. The central pillar is an open diamond shape with a horizontal bar across its centre.

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. The two legs of the X shape are linked with a short horizontal bar at their narrowest points

Stool with inverted indented dome as top and dome as base. It has a hollow cylindrical support with an outer structure made a a central ring with bars in a zigzag design in the top and bottom section

Upper seat is inverted circular dome with indented upper surface. It has four legs each ending in a bulbous foot.

Stool with circular indented inverted dome as top and inverted dome as base. These are both decorated with diamond designs around their edges Between these is a U shaped structure with a rectangular bar as base also decorated with diamond designs. Between the arms of the upper U is the form of an abstracted feline [lion}?.

Stool with circular inverted dome with indented top and inverted dome as base. It has an abstracted anthropomorphised caryatid form with long bent arms projecting upwards from small bent legs that hold the upper seat. Above the legs is a flat platform with two arms at right angles to the other arms also supporting the upper dome. The outside of the central platform is decorated with vertical zigzags carved into the surface

Stool with circular inverted dome with indented top and inverted dome as base. It has a vertical pillar of two circular forms - the ones above and below have vertical V shapes projecting out from a hollow centre. The central section is a flat horizontal rectangular panel with a small projected squat at one side. On the opposite side is an open vertical V shape as a handle. There is a large chip out of the upper rim.

Heavy gathered skirt in salempore fabric. It has two layers of fabric - a shorter one that rests on the lower longer section. The lower layer is fringed with white beads.

Textile wrap with geometric designs in white beads in its lower 1/3.

Textile wrap with geometric designs in white beads. A small tassel on a string of beads is attached (near the bottom in the centre) and another string of beads on the right hand side.

Textile wrap with geometric designs in white beads.

Heavy gathered skirt in salempore fabric. It has two layers of fabric - a shorter one layered on top the lower longer section. The lower fringe has two rows of beadwork running horizontally around its entire width in the centre of the panel. It also has circles of beadwork decoration. The upper layer has 5 rectangular panels of beadwork attached with safety pins. These are in a variety of designs including the nyaleti/star and mhangele/guinea fowl.

Cylindrical shaped figure with a small pleated skirt around the base which is covered with beaded panels. It has a face - two buttons for eyes and one for a nose and has two bunches of beaded earring loops at the top rim and a beaded panel hanging down the back. It wears a belt of beaded strings around its waist to which an important amulet is as well as brass bells are attached. The cylinder is decorated with bands of colour; the panels have geometric designs, and the top of the cylinder is divided into four sections each a different colour.

Semi- oval shaped hide with a smaller oval opening at the open top. Beadwork trim around the inner edge of the upper oval and around the bottom half of the apron ending in two beaded half florets at the upper end. A beaded florets is attached to the centre of the apron.

Flat hide piece where the shape of the animal front which it has come still evident - four legs, a small tail and a neck shape. The left hand edge has been beaded and slightly inside of this edge a beaded strip runs from top to bottom. The right hand edge is decorated with three rows of brass studs.

Rectangular panel of beadwork with strong geometric patterns, a row of beaded loops in the centre, near the base and a fringe of beads with loops at the base

Three long ropes covered in beaded candy stripe patterns and wool tassels at their ends. Half way down their lengths they each has a band of loops encircling them

Three long ropes covered in beaded candy stripe patterns and wool tassels at their ends. Half way down their lengths they each has a band of loops encircling them

Flat wide beaded collar with zigzag designs

Heavy stool/headrest with two parallel bars as a support. It has four curved and bulbous legs at each corner and a number of sausage-shaped loops projecting from the body - two each at each narrow end; two on each side projecting downwards and sidewards joining the parallel bars from their centres to the legs and two each side joining the ends of the parallel bars to the legs. Object is blackened throughout.