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Start Over Donor Paul Vitale
Hearst Museum object titled Arrows and fabric, accession number 5-16092a-d, described as Piece matches the description for 5-16070 3 metal arrows & 1 piece of fabric sewn to framed piece of burlap
Hearst Museum object titled Baby garment, accession number 1-259532, described as baby jacket
Hearst Museum object titled Baby garment, accession number 1-259535, described as Baby dress.
Hearst Museum object titled Baby wrap, accession number 16-20240, described as Baby wrap; 70 centimeter x 82 centimeter.; natural white weave; lower edge scalloped with embroidery; multi-colored form motifs embroidered across lower part of wrap; hemmed with overcast stitches; stiffening agent (starch?) applied to back of embroidered area.
Hearst Museum object titled Badge, accession number 9-21650, described as Imperial Era court official rank badge worn on the back of a robe (7th civil rank); tapestry (Kossu) weave central panel, framed in black and edged with narrow bias binding of silver/blue. Central Mandarin duck is both painted and woven in green, blue, pink and yellow w/ gold wrapped details on it’s back; duck stands on a blue rock over blue & white water and waves, and is surrounded by Buddhist and Taoist symbols and clouds against a gold wrapped sky ground; red Imperial sun in upper left corner. Symbols are painted in detail. Backing is a coarse open weave fabric [sacking?].
Hearst Museum object titled Badges, accession number 9-21651a-c, described as Pair of Imperial Era rank badges [2 front panels (a & b) and 1 back panel (c)]. 6th civil rank = egret. Front panels; W=15.5cm, L=30 cm. Back panel, W= 29.5 cm, L=32 cm. Black ground fabric w/ central egret surrounded by blue and gold water, clouds & Buddhist & Taoist symbols. Embroidery is dark, medium & light blues, off-white, gold, orange-red. Back (c) is one piece. Front (a) and (b), has been split in half, through image. Gold couched, Greek -key patterned border on all edges on a blue/black ground. Black lining.
Hearst Museum object titled Badges, accession number 9-21649, described as Pair of Imperial Era, civil official’s rank badges worn on the front and back of a robe; silver, couched bird [pheasant?] on blue/green silk, sewn together. Embroidered blue eye on each bird. Bird is standing on a rock over waves and water and surrounded by clouds and Bhuddist symbols. Border of scrolled flowers, tendrils and the Chinese character for long life.
Hearst Museum object titled Badges, accession number 9-21648a,b, described as Pair of rank badges, worn on the back & front of robe, Imperial Era; tapestry (Kossu) weave, w/ white birds (egrets Egret represents 6th civil rank)) standing on rocks, on a gold background surrounded by blue clouds, bats, cpeonies and various other flowers, conch shell, fan, flower pot, lozenges, endless knows, Imperial sun, various other Buddhist & Chinese symbols and florals all decorate. Bottom of each panel contains blue, diagonal water/waves and stylized mountains. LIght blue silk backing. (a) is two joined pieces sewn together. (b) is a single piece. . Border is 2 cm wide black & metallic band. Colors include light & dark blue, white, red-orange, green, pink, yellow and metalic gold.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 10-3443, described as Bag; 46 cm l, ca. 60 cm at widest point; 2 round handles with outside diameter, 14 cm; fiber wrapped and knotted around circular pieces to make handle; ca . two thirds down on each handle another laayer of double ply twine is knotted onto the handles and macramed forming bag proper; macramed tied off on inside of bottom.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 10-3441, described as Bag; 21.2 cm h, 30 cm w, 7 cm deep; beige and dark brown plaited bag with triangular patterns enclosed in squares in body of bag; 4 cm of cross hatched pattern at bottom and zig zag at top; bag held together with three .5 cm bands of bamboo encircling bag lengthwise and looped over horizontal reinforcement at top; horizontal band forms bottom part of half circular handles on back sand front two handles) ; all bands embellished with brown and beige wrapped elements; back has bamboo band connecting superstructure of bag as described above to bag’s lid (4 cmh x 23 cm l) geometrically patterned in dark brown and straw colored; bottom and top of bag have stabilizing elements lashed on.

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