Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Spoon (Norway), 1804

  Round bowl engraved with zig-zag border enclosing fourteen petalled blossom in gilt. Short stem applied with ropetwist segment topped by bosse below squared and trellis pierced terminal fitted with silver…

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  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…

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  Tray Cloth (Norway), 1950–60

  Small square tray cloth of linen damask in grey and white. Design shows horizontally-running lines emphasized by irregularly placed rectangles on top of lines.

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  Table Runner (Norway), 1950–60

  Table runner in yellow, gray and white in a pattern showing graduating cylindrical shapes coming from either side and touching in the middle.

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  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.

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  Textile (Samoa)

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  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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  Tapa Cloth (Samoa), 20th century

  Large rectangular tapa, printed with blocks of geometric diamond and zigzag patterns in reddish-brown in a repeating fashion. Dark brown diamonds, squares and dots are hand-painted and do not repeat.

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  Viking Motifs Matchsafe, ca. 1900

  Rectangular, curved corners and sides, featuring relief decoration of a kneeling viking with sword and shield, fending off partially visible dragon in upper left-hand corner. Lid hinged on side. Striker…

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  Sampler (Norway), 1850–1900

  Geometric ornament, houses alternate with trees, people surrounded by Greek fret.