Gift of Adelaide Goan

Gift of Adelaide Goan

Gift of Adelaide Goan

Embroidered cloth with design of figures holding staffs to front and wearing a plumed headdress, two triangular projections. Red, brown, purple, yellow-cream and white alpaca wool on dark blue cotton ground. Made up of fragments of a larger piece.

Needle-knit frog figure, made of cotton and wool. Red, pink and blue threads in body, yellow-brown head and eyes, white belly. Well preserved, complete.

Gift of Adelaide Goan

Miniature terracotta kero with flat base and flaring rim. Band on middle body incised and in high relief. Slightly burnished surface; partial reduction fired; modeled manufacture. Not restored.

Modeled plate with short ring pedestal, burnished interior and rounded orange-brown rim. Painted interior, terracotta with cream, orange-brown and black slip. Head with black headdress and tassels to the sides and band below with repeating spiral waves. Complete.

Two part terracotta figure mold. Part a is a seated person with a triangular face in the interior. Part b is the back, with no design. Unbroken.

Two section mould. Terracotta bird mould (part a) with diagonal lines in relief on wings, circular eyes and short tail and peak. Unbroken. Terracotta bird mould (part b) with diagonal lines in relief on wings, circular eyes and short tail and peak. Unbroken.