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Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 5-10888, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Blouse, accession number 9-17551, described as Blouse; mirror fragments and varicolored cotton embroidery on indigo-dyed handspun plainweave (front) with two circles to fit over breasts; dark red handspun plainweave on sleeves; sides trimmed with red, yellow and blue green silk cloth with weft brocade; white cuff edge to cuff edge. CHECK

Hearst Museum object titled Cushion cover, accession number 5-10889, described as Cushion Cover, Nigeria, Northrn Yoruba or Southern Hausa attr. (fide Berta Bascom). 1983. 5-10889, acc no. 4176, file code 5.1. Collector: Barbara E. Busch. Donor: Barbara E. Busch. Materials, techniques: sewn on (appliqued) leather and snakeskin designs on leather strip; dyes. Context of use: prob. from a hassock (cushion) cover. Description: Cushion cover (incomplete); black-dyed leather strip w/2 appliqued chickens cut from snakeskin and two leather circles, also appliqued; reddish brown leather strip along top; 1.65cm x h. ca. 16.5cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Dishes, accession number 9-17554a,b, described as Stands, a pair; black-laquered wood with incised and painted floral motifs in red and green; each signed on back; diameter 15.3 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Embroidered textile, accession number 3-28540, described as Landscape, embroidered; triangular burlap scene with landscape in varicolored yarn on burlap; small wood house painted red to right of tree with stick trunk; at apex of triangle three carved and red-painted "plaques", one which says "MASYA", the other "NICARAGUA." Fringed on two sides and backed with commercial cloth. height 20 cm.