Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen

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.

The shawl has been woven with an abstract design in black and yellow-white cotton yarn. There is a broad black band on either end of the shawl, and within these bands are vertical rows of stylized bird figures (twenty-six in each band). Both ends have been finished in a fringe of fine knotting, and there are outlines of images arranged horizontally within this knotting. These horizontal rows of images consist of: four leaf designs, three duck figures, and four leaf designs. One side of the shawl is noticeably faded, and there are traces of blue/indigo dye in some of the yellow-white woven areas.

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.

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.

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

Gift of Dr. Werner Muensterberger

Alfred T. White Fund

Alfred T. White Fund