Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sidewall (France), 1950

  Chintz pattern: Stylized floral and foliate motifs printed in blues, greens and yellows on pink ground.

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  Stole (France), 1915–20

  Long stole with triangular middle-section ending in elaborate tassel of metal, jet and silk. Pink velvet with “batiked” effect in purple. At either end, printed border of sylized flower forms…

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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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  Textile (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Long strip of woven cotton with a simple woven windowpane check; a wide stripe down the center is edged with light blue and has two parallel lines of white ikat.

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  Textile (Nigeria), ca. 1950

  Central medallion shows a man and a crowned woman with lettering above their heads reading OKASA AKA UNI. The medallion is derived from one designed to commemorate the Silver Jubilee…

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  Button

  On card 21

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  Fragment (Nigeria), mid-20th century

  Reversible square fragment of dark red, with a center band of blue, yellow and white weft floats which form a geometric pattern.

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  Sidewall, Spanish Geraniums, ca. 1951

  Brightly colored pink and red geraniums growing on vining stems. Printed on white ground.

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  Fragment (Nigeria), 1961

  Narrow-woven light-brown cotton with light-blue stripes, embroidered in a highly abstract pattern in gold-colored rayon thread.

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  Fragment (Nigeria), 1961

  Embroidered sample for a tunic front in light brown and blue striped cotton, pieced together from four narrow strips. The neck opening is indicated, and the front is embroidered with…