Horse trapping; central panel of red felt, 3 ½” wide, is decorated with a white metal disc with a hole centrally and five smaller holes stitched through for attachment, three cowries and a green tassel. This panel is attached at one end to a dark red panel consisting of nine plaited bands, and to a green flat woven panel decorated with four cowries, some are perhaps missing, and red stitching. The green panel extends in to two pendants dyed green, orange and red which are decorated with tassels in the same colours and in brown and black. Eleven tassels on each of two bands are suspended from the dark red panel; they are in brown and white, dark blue, green, brown, blue and orange.
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