Object Listing

Gourd decorated with linear pokerwork designs. It has a stopper with an anthropomorphic finial that has its pointed shaft inserted inside the vessel. The finial consists of a head and torso with a face with a sad expression and the arms bent at the elbow and the two hands held up close to the chest. The figure wears a red, yellow and white beaded necklace. Around the widest part of the gourd is a panel of lacy beadwork with beaded fringes hanging down The panel is tied underneath the object with string and it rests on a ring of wrapped fabric.

Round beaker shaped mug standing on a tall raised foot. It has a geometric pattern around its waist and a diamond pattern near the lip.

Round beaker shaped mug standing on a short raised foot. It has two horizontal bands around its belly delineated with grooved lines in each band is a single raised bump.

Round beaker shaped mug standing on a raised foot. It has a circular design at its centre - one on both sides.

Round beaker shaped mug standing on a raised foot. It has a band of design running around its centre - divided up into rectangles with a leaf shape diagonally across each block

Round beaker shaped mug standing on a raised foot. It has a band of geometric diamond designs running around its centre.

Rectangular panel of beadwork with loops of beaded strings at one end and a round metal snuffbox at the other. It has 4 brass buttons attached.

Semi-circular panel of beadwork in a zigzag design

Hemispherical wooden drum with a hide skin stretched across its top and secured by wooden pegs. It has a low round raised base

Hemispherical wooden drum with a hide skin stretched across its top and secured by wooden pegs. It has a low round raised base

Short cylindrical wooden drum with a hide skin stretched across its top and secured by wooden pegs. It has a low round raised base

Hemispherical wooden drum with a hide skin stretched across its top and secured by wooden pegs. It has a low round raised base

Hemispherical wooden drum with a hide skin stretched across its top and secured by wooden pegs with a leather thong that criss-crosses between them. It has a low round raised base

Square woven mat with triangular, diamond shaped and parallelogram designs.

Square woven mat with centralised triangular and diamond shaped designs.

Square woven mat with a zigzag design created from rectangles.

Square woven mat with 3 parallel segments of design dividing the surface roughly into 2 large and 2 small other sections with triangular and diamond shaped designs.

Square woven mat with 4 parallel strips dividing the surface roughly into 3 large and 2 smaller other sections with centralised triangular and diamond shaped designs.

Square woven mat with 5 bands of triangular, diamond shaped and rectangular designs.

Square woven mat divided into 9 sections with central triangular and square designs.

Rectangular purse woven from plant fibre and open at one narrow end. Covered at top and bottom with a bands of openwork beadwork in a mesh type design.

Rectangular purse woven from plant fibre and open at one narrow end. Covered at top with a narrow strip of beadwork at one end and a broader one at the other in a zigzag design made up of squares.

Rectangular purse woven from plant fibre and open at one narrow end. Has a panel of two inward facing triangles as a central beaded design.

Rectangle of beadwork with symmetrical rows of diamond designs across its whole surface. It has a bead fringe along its lower edge.

Rectangular purse woven from plant fibre and open at one narrow end. Covered at top with a panel of openwork beadwork with fringes of "Jobs Tears" (botanically, Coix lacryma-jobi) seeds and another similar panel just below the centre line.

Square woven mat with large central square design with parallel lines running across it and two framing strips down the sides

Square woven mat divided into 5 sections by parallel lines each with a wedge shaped design at alternating sides.

Square woven mat divided into 7 alternating light and dark sections with central triangular designs.

Square woven mat divided into 5 sections with triangular designs.