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Wrap around knee length pleated skirt divided into 3 panels with ties. The top of the skirt and ties are a natural cotton. The waist band is 4 cm wide. Below this bands is 7.5 cm. of natural cotton pleats held with a decorative stitch. Middle section…

Doll made for craft and exhibition purposes represents a Japanese girl. The body is made of wet tissue molded over a wire form. The head is covered with painted fabric on which the features have been painted. The hair is made of darning thread. There…

Undecorated metal bowl apparently copper plated. Metal seem to have been turned instead of cast or forged. Manufacturer's (?) marks on bottom. Bowl is wider than it is tall not spherical; it rests on a circular foot. Note: Collected in Laos 1962-1964

A construction of brass wire that when closed forms two hemispheres joined back to back and which ipens to an hourglass shape. Two brass rings 2 1/4" in diameter are commected by ten brass half-loops of the same material. The half -loops are held…

Three brass bells each with a sheet brass lotus leaf form attached to the clapper withall bells strung on a red cord. Largest bell is 6" diameter 2 1/2" tall Medium bell is 5" diameter 2" tall Small bell is 4 1/1" diameter 2" tall Large bell is cadt…

Wooden disk dome-shaped lacqered black with twin reinforcing ribs on convex wide; two handles one U-shaped fitted into ribs at apex of dome one rectangular (crossbar is actually round-overall shape is rectangular) attached to ribs with copper pin.…

A foot of coiled bamboo laced together to form a tube to which is laced a tubular basket (A) and its cover (B). Basket (A) is 3 3/4" outside diameter woven of natural and blue-dyed strips. The bottom is folded under and laced to a mad-weave pattern…

Pipe has three components: an ornate brass receptacle and tube 8 7/8" overall length; a bamboo center piece 4" in length tapered at end opposite the bradd mouth piece which is actually aspent cartridge case (markings-L 0. 53). 1990.22.49 a -…

Pipe has two component parts; a hardwood bowl of a uniform taper that suggests lathe origin and a bamboo draw tube with no mouthpiece. The bowl is decorated with three circumferential copper wire inlays all twisted off at the draw-tube side. The…