A red silk fringed umbrella on a long bamboo pole ending in a spike. It is made of maroon silk with a yellow silk fringe at the top and a more substantial one around the bottom edge. There is a metal finial at the top with a white cord attached with two tassels on the end. The metal spokes have glass beads on the ends.

Although the umbrella has been identified as of Asian or European manufacture, it was probably acquired in Africa by Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford (1838-1913). It was presented by his son with AAB0232 a drum and a blunderbuss AAA2509. These items are likely to have been obtained in expeditions against Nana Olomu in September 1894. Bedford also took part in the Brass River expedition of February 1895 and commanded operations in the Gambia in 1894.