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  • Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

    Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

  • Band (Morocco), 18th century

    Natural color linen worked in red silk with the design reserved in the linen outlined in green silk. Details of decoration in green silk. Main design consists of a fountain…

  • Bark Cloth, Large panel of tapa cloth, 19th or early 20th century

    Large panel of tapa cloth. Thick white fabric made from beaten bark, painted in rust and brown in design of three rows of rectangles enclosing striated angular forms. Rows are…

  • Printing Seal (Costa Rica), 15th century

    Small reddish-brown cylinder in a high-relief of a simple running fret pattern which may represent snakes. Inside each of the frets is a head with two eyes, each one slightly…

  • Cap (Morocco), 1900–1950

    Knitted wool cap with a design of overlapping arches, each with a six-pointed star, in white wool on a rust-red ground. Chevron border at lower edge of alternating red and…

  • Tapa Cloth, Tapa cloth panel, ca. 1924

    Square of tapa cloth with pattern in squares filled with diagonal stripes and diamond shapes in horizontal arrangment in shades of dark brown.

  • Tapa Cloth (Samoa), 1895

    Panel with border on all four sides. Design of white diamonds with toothed edges, stylized bird in center of diamonds. Inner border of stylized “butterfly”. Center section is plain except…

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