A tightly woven fiesta shawl, primarily white cotton. Stylized plants, birds, dogs, and geometric patterns have been embroidered on the ends with light purple, pink-red, and light green wool yarn. Two ends of the shawl have been finished with a twisted yellow-white cotton fringe. The fringe has been decorated with pink-red and light green wool tassels.

Long piece of black and white woven cotton cloth. The patterning of the white threads is linear; groupings of three short lines of white are arranged in rows.

Colourful small woven textile with long fringes at each end. Made of strands of purple, orange, pink, green, yellow, red, white and turquoise yarn woven into solid stripes, embellished with a central panel of embroidered figures and motifs in the same colours. Large cross-hatches, stitched in white thread, reinforce the ends near the fringe.

Rectangular piece of woven off-white cloth with red and purple embroidered decoration. Made up of two panels, handstitched in red up a centre seam, joined so that the two identical embroidered designs create one central rectangular depiction of two figures surrounded by birds. There is a small embroidered red bird in each corner of the cloth and the top edge has a red handstitched zigzag hem.

Two piece shawl or llijlla woven with wide bands called pampakuna of indigo and multi-striped geometric panels at the sides of each section forming a double width central panel. Other colors are burgundy red, green, yellow white, black and purple. The tubular edge binding or ribete in burgundy with ojo de gato (or diamond shaped) lozenges in blue and white.

Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Hide saddle bag with a long hide fringe on the ends and short fringe along the sides. The border of the bag is red felt banded in beads on top and bottom in a red and blue diamond pattern on a white background. Above the border is a zigzag beaded outline. On the body of the saddlebag are beaded diamond bursts with rawhide streamers. The saddlebag is sewn of sections of buck skin with a cut opening and short fringes along the length of the bag and long fringes along the ends.

A man's two-piece striped poncho. Stripes with geometric patterns have widths that are medium and wide, while stripes with solid colors have widths that are narrow. Because of the textile having been washed, natural white alpaca fleece has been changed to a light pink in places. Neck opening and poncho selvages have the same sewn-on edge of braid binding and fringe. Predominant colors of object are dark red and white with stripes of green, yellow and black. At the center of each of the two pieces that make up the poncho are a trio of large parallal diamond-patterned stripes with a narrower patterned stripe on each side. Narrow solid-colored stripes alternate with patterned stripes. The sewn-on braiding edge has diamond designs in yellow, green, dark red, and white; woven into the braid is a bright fringe of pink green, orange, red, white, black, brown and purple. To create curved edges on the poncho, each of the four corners has been sewn down.The object is complete and its overall condition is good. It was purchased unused. Condition: excellent.

Frank Sherman Benson Fund