Collections: Items Tagged "embroidery"

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On View: Dance Headdress (Ci-wara Kun)

These headdresses, called ci-wara, represent antelopes, important animals in Bamana philosophy. The antelope’s power is a metaphor for...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Helmet Mask (ndoli jowei) for Sande Society

    The ceremonies of the Sande society are the only occasions in Africa in which women customarily wear wooden masks. Masks like this one repre...

     

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    Found 26 Items Tagged "embroidery"


    Don José María (Gómez de) Cervantes y Altamirano de VelascoEmbroidery "Contraband 1862"Womans Blouse or HuipilA MusicianWomans RobeDoña Josefa de la Cotera y Calvo de la PuertaThe Virgin of Mercy with Three SaintsThe Dinner PartyRobe (Kansawu) and Trousers, from 3 Piece Royal or Noble CostumeTextile or Mantle FragmentHeathers DegradéMargaret Sanger Place SettingUpholstered Slipper Chair, Aesthetic Movement style with Moorish style embroidery (Rockefeller Room)Sojourner Truth Place SettingPetronilla de Meath Place SettingSquare TextileEmbroidered Dance KiltSampler or Fracture Drawing or Print
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