Cloth fragment with geometric decorations in blue dyed camelid wool threads. Plain weave textile technique. Incomplete.

Painted gauze cloth with one selvage, five horizontal zigzag double lines with parrots and double-headed birds, and circles with dots alternating between them. Brown on cream ground. Incomplete.

Embroidered cloth with sixteen stylized condors(?), band borders of thirteen invert-repeat bird motifs above and below, and three selvages. Red, yellow-cream, blue and light brown dyed alpaca on brown cotton plain weave ground. Condors have triangular tails, diamond-shaped eyes, and three crests. (Incomplete object.)

A large rectangular bark cloth covered with geometric patterns. The patterns are made up of triangles and linear shapes which fit together to decorate the cloth's whole surface. The cloth is coloured in varying shades of reddish brown and browns.

Large rectangular tapa cloth with hand-painted designs in dark brown over cross hatching of light brown on natural ground. At each end sits a row of flowers with foliage. Across the width of the tapa are cut fruit with leaves and seeds, two rows of huts surrounded by trees, three crests and crosses surrounded by a ring of leaves, and ship anchors with flowers to either side of a large butterfly. Tapa appears to have been cut down long edges.

Cocoa cloth. Textile is roughly square, hemmed along the edges, with groups of large tassels at each corner. Stripes are wide blocks of brown, tan and grey, with a panel of embroidery at centre showing repeating floral motifs in tan on a red background. At edges are rows of pin-striping in colours of pink, green, red, blue and yellow. Tassels are made of strands of twisted wool, several attached by thin cords woven with tiny white glass beads incorporated into the construction.

Cocoa cloth. Textile is roughly square, hemmed along the edges, with groups of large tassels at each corner. Stripes are wide blocks of brown, tan and grey, with a panel of embroidery at centre showing repeating triangular and floral motifs in tan on a red background. A strip of embroidery in bright yellow, green, white and pink runs across the centre. At edges are rows of pin-striping in multiple colours. Tassels are strands of twisted wool, several attached by thin, multicoloured cords.

Undecorated square of cream-coloured silk cloth. Hemmed 0.5 cm on three sides with cotton thread.

Gift in memory of Isaac M. Bates by his children and grandchildren.

Gift in memory of Isaac M. Bates by his children and grandchildren.