Blouse with reverse appliqué panels (or mola). A small sugar sack is used as the torso of the blouse, and has been decorated with geometric designs incorporating triangles, circles, and zigzag lines in yellow, orange, black and dark red. Molas on back and front are similar but not identical. The...
Harvesting tool. Tool is carved from a single piece of wood, with a long curved hook at one end, widening and thickening into a rectangular shape that has three long tubes bored into it, to house three fingers. Below this is a flat wooden surface that sits along the back of the hand.
Spear thrower. Tool is long, thin and leaf shaped. Rounded resin grip at one end and a squared tip at the other. Plant fibre and resin are wrapped around the tip to hold a small upwardly curved piece of wood, upon which a spear woutld attach. Tool is flat on this side, and slightly convex on the ...
Large rectangular tapa cloth with hand-painted designs in dark brown over cross hatching of light brown on natural ground. At each end sits a row of flowers with foliage. Across the width of the tapa are cut fruit with leaves and seeds, two rows of huts surrounded by trees, three crests and cross...
Embroidered textile made of four narrow panels of light grey cotton neatly sewn together, with embroidery in dark blue thread occupying the central portion. A circular pattern at centre contains a scattering of flowers surrounded by leaves. Surrounding this are smaller blocks of embroidery showin...
Dark purple silk jacket. Garment is long in the body, with long, wide sleeves, and closes on the right side and horizontally across the front of the shoulder, creating a small neck. Fabric is a dark purple silk with heavy applique on the shoulders, chest and torso where birds and peony flowers ar...
Red silk jacket. Garment is short in the body with wide sleeves and a small upright neck, closing on the right side and horizontally across the front of the shoulder. Fabric is red silk, heavily embroidered front and back with peony flowers, foliage, butterflies and birds, as well as linear decor...
Wooden needles. Two needles are attached by a knotted string of twisted, light tan yarn passing through their eye holes. Needles are long and thin, thicker throught the top and midpoint, then narrowing to a sharp point at bottom.
Small metal ornament. Bell shaped ornament is made of a thin piece of hammered copper, oxidized to a dark orange colour, bent in half and shaped identically on both sides. At bottom, object has a somewhat bulbous shape, convex on both front and back, with a narrow neck that flares toward a flat t...
Small metal ornament. Bottle shaped ornament is made of a thin piece of hammered silver, oxidized to a dark grey colour, bent in half and shaped identically on both sides. Body of object is round and somewhat bulbous, convex on both front and back, with a long, narrow neck the top of which is the...