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Hearst Museum object titled Apron, accession number 9-23356, described as Apron Front vertical rectangle on black with light blue rectangle on middle. Two long red ends with appliqué and embroidery with geometric motifs.

Hearst Museum object titled Apron, accession number 9-23358, described as Hmong woman's apron. Red apron with appliqué on boarder and embroidery on center with swirl pattern on pink and red. Two long ends with embroidery on yellow, white, green, blue and black.

Hearst Museum object titled Apron, accession number 9-23357, described as Hmong woman's apron. Long vertical apron with embroidery of repetitive swirls and appliqué star shaped on blue boarder. Long ends in red fabric, with white banner embroidered and pink strings hanging from both ends.

Hearst Museum object titled Apron, accession number 9-23396, described as Apron: Central panel indigo floral design framed with geometric patterns appliqued onto black ground cloth embroidered in red and pink with highlights of green and blue on edges with geometric designs. Long woven attached ties to top of fabric with black and white stripes.

Hearst Museum object titled Audience chain, accession number 9-21345, described as “Audience Chain” Four sets of 27 black beads separated by amethyst balls and strung on yellow silk cord constitute the front. Back: navy blue, stiff cord, first cased in embroidered red and white ribbon, then looped through a coin-shaped ring of brass, where they meet the lower double cord that runs through another amethyst ball as a red silk cord. Pendant starting from a third hole in this amethyst ball: three-tiered amethyst slide of decreasing width on red braided cord which runs into a black cotton braided tape (11 cm long), its other end looped through an eye in a filt-bronze plaque holding an oval turquoise. As usual, the tape-ends are secured by winding tri-colored threads around them: white - light blue - navy blue - white. Under the turquoise another black tape (16 cm long). Then a silver(?) wire ring secured by a red cord, a small crystal bead and a tear-drop shaped piece of pink quartz capped by a brass(?) bell-shaped cover. Two shoulder pendants are left on this chain. Strung on blue cords and emanating from coin-shaped rings are ten or nine, respectively, corals, the final pendants a smaller version of the pink crystal chain pendant (here grenadine and emerald, respectively). Overall length of chain: 117 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Baby carrier, accession number 9-23673, described as Baby carrier: pieced appliqued multiple colored ribbon on borders floral and bird over embroidery designs on central panel. backed in cotton.

Hearst Museum object titled Baby carrier, accession number 9-23360, described as Hmong baby carrier. Red baby carrier with geometric appliqué in red, green, black, white and embroidery at the top part on yellow.

Hearst Museum object titled Baby carrier, accession number 9-23395, described as Baby carrier, woven ribbon used to trim border, combination of embroidery and applique, main color blue, pink highlights and metallic plastic (?) thread.

Hearst Museum object titled Baby carrier, accession number 9-23691, described as Baby carrier: Central appliqued and embroidered medallion surrounded with fine chain stitch floral embroidery - white on black ground, framed with woven ribbon and appliqued pink and blue corners back in blue cotton.

Hearst Museum object titled Baby carrier, accession number 9-23359, described as Red baby carrier with an horizontal banner on top with swirly embroidery and appliqué and vertical middle section with geometric appliqué.

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