Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Textile (Bolivia), 19th century

  Square made of two lengths seamed down long side. Broad dark brown and rust stripes and brown cream stripes with think stripes of blue and red. Warp-patterned stripes in these…

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  Textile (Bolivia), early 19th century

  Broad dark brown stripes alternating with groups of cream, tan, yellow, pink, blue, and brown pencil-stripes, with central geometrically decorated stripes in same colors, warp-patterned. Narrow bright blue selvages continuous…

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  Textile (Bolivia), 19th century

  Square made of two lengths seamed down long side. Edged on four sides with patterned tubular embroidery. Broad stripes of red and dark brown with thin stripes in white, pink,…

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  Textile (Bolivia), 19th century

  Contained square with thin stripes in two shades of brown with broader stripes at intervals in tans, black, white with narrow geometrically patterned central stripe. Edged on four sides with…

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  Bag (Bolivia), 19th century

  Small square flat bag with remains of woven shoulder straps. Warp rep stripes of various widths in cream, black and shades of brown alternate with warp-patterned stripes in same colors…

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  Textile (Bolivia)

  Broad stripes of dark brown and dark red and dull green with warp-patterned geometrical and animal stripes in these colors, on cream ground. Some type of herringbone embroidery in red…

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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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  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.