Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Textile (India)

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  Trimming, early 20th century

  Trimming with pendulous lavender and pink flowers.

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  Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Woman’s wrapper with a large-scale design of two columns of squares, each criss-crossed by diagonal lines. Field of small white circles. In white on a deep blue ground.

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  Tzute (man’s Head Cloth) (Guatemala), 20th century

  Two widths of hand-woven red cotton with thin blue stripes joined together. Abstract and stylized image of the double-headed eagle in purple, orange, turquoise and white. Long purple tassels at…

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  Wrapper (Ghana), 20th century

  Cotton, dyed dark brown and block-printed in a dark glossy substance, in geometric patterns in groups of three rows, forming rectangles. The motifs are carved on calabashes then stamped on…

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  Wrapper (Nigeria), 1950s

  Wrapper with a grid of large Xs on a field of small circles. Design created through tied- and stitched-resist patterning methods, in white on a deep blue ground.

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  Textile, 1962

  White ground has an allover pattern of dark pink gladiolas with green stems.

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  Drawing (USA)

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  Textile (Cote d’Ivoire), 1964

  Panel composed of eight strips sewn side-to-side. An overall checkerboard pattern of deep blue and white is accented with multicolored horizontal stripes and supplementary weft patterns.

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  Textile (Indonesia), early 20th century

  Narrow length of dark blue cotton with all-over batik pattern in light brown. Pattern features “sawat” motif (wings and tail of Garuda, mount of Vishnu) among other designs. On one…