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An undyed, coarsely woven cotton blouse with embroidered shoulders, chest panel, back panel, long sleeves, and cuffs. The embroidered designs consist of leaves, flowers, lines, and criss-cross designs. The design on the shoulders consists of multi-coloured leaves, and flowers created with blue lines and light purple hatching. The embroidery on the chest consists of one blue and one multi-coloured flower with multi-coloured leaves that have been bordered with red hatching (outside) and blue hatching (inside). The embroidery on the back consists of two blue flowers with multi-coloured leaves that have been bordered with red hatching (outside) and blue hatching (inside). The back also contains a sewn blue line that runs from the back embroidery to the neck opening above. The sleeves display a multi-coloured leaf and flower motif that is bordered with green hatching. The cuffs of the blouse are closed with black buttons and braided blue yarn fasteners. The embroidered design on the cuffs depict multi-coloured leaves and dark blue flowers edged with dark pink ribbon, light pink hatching, and an orange-red line. The separate strap (b) consists of purple-pink acrylic ribbon, and the ends have been sewn together with green thread that forms a loop. Looped into this green strap is a smaller braid of green and pink-purple that has been tied to form a second loop.
Undyed coarsely woven cotton fabric with embroidered neck panel, shoulders, bottom, and seam edges. There is a design of an abstracted bird, a symbol, and geometric imagery on the neck panel, the shoulders, and along the bottom of the garment. Most seams of the blouse have been sewn with a criss-cross pattern of red and brown. The edges of the sleeves have a red edge on the front and a brown edge on the back. The edge along the bottom of the blouse has been sewn with a criss-cross pattern of red and black. On the front of the blouse, under the left sleeve, is a wavy line of purple embroidery.
Undyed and coarsely woven cotton fabric with embroidered neck panel, shoulders, bottom, and seam edges. There is a depiction of an abstracted dog figures, a symbol, and a geometric pattern along the bottom of the blouse. There are two rectangles outlined in red-orange on either side of the neck with four vertical stripes of coloured embroidery. The colour scheme within the left rectangle reads as follows, from left-to-right: dark purple, green, light purple-pink, and yellow. The colour scheme within the right rectangle reads as follows, from left-to-right: light purple-pink, green, dark purple, yellow, and light purple-pink. There is a zigzag pattern in green and light purple-pink on the shoulders. There is also a thin vertical line of dark purple towards the ends of the sleeves. Two short horizontal rows of green and red-orange embroidery have been applied to the centre of the blouse, below the neck opening.
Very brightly coloured poncho, heavily embroidered with acrylic yarn and cotton embroidery thread, mainly purple and pink, with numerous other colours, on off-white cotton backing. Main design is a stretched oval running from the front edge to back edge around neck, embroidered mainly in acrylic yarn in an abstract star-like design. The negative spaces outside the circle are embroidered with smaller floral designs, a person and two birds. Poncho has a red and blue cotton collar added, with various types of lace and metallic gold ribbon sewn onto it. Sides are stitched except for small slits for arms.
A multi-coloured fiesta shawl made with a base yellow-white cotton fibre. The shawl contains two borders of embroidered animals, men, and men on horseback wearing triangular hats with crosses. Below the animals in the border is a broad stripe of multi-coloured, machine-stitched embroidery patterns. Both ends of the shawl have been finished with multi-coloured acrylic pom-poms. The animal imagery was drawn on the cloth with red pen and then these drawings were stitched by hand and with a sewing machine. The imagery on one end, from left-to-right: bird, dog, man with gun, animal, animal with antlers, animal, bird with elaborate feathers, bird, horse, man on horse with hat. The imagery from the other end, from left-to-right: text "Fin", man with hat, animal, bird with elaborate feathers, bird, dog, animal with antlers, dog, horse, man on horse with hat.
A woven rectangular bag with a strap. The design of the bag consists of a multi-coloured checkerboard pattern. Alternating rectangles have images of deer-like animals. The strap has been woven with two strips of alternating rectangles of dark green and light green.