Culture or time period: Mesoamerican peoples / Function: 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled All purpose cloth, accession number 3-28134, described as All purpose cloth. Cotton. Plain open weave, brocaded. White ground with green, brown, and purple designs. 20 inches x 17.5 inches

Hearst Museum object titled Bed cover, accession number 3-140, described as Bed covering or dehenilla (delamilla or sabana per Schevill 1993) . (Cotton, plain weave, predominantly red, with blue, green, yellow, white striped, including ikat stripes and design. Approximately 4m 14 cm long, 93 cm wide.)

Hearst Museum object titled Bed cover, accession number 3-30a, described as Bed covering?; tapestry weave; cotton; stripes with ikat and other designs; multicolored; approximately 4 m 88 cm long, 106 cm wide

Hearst Museum object titled Bench, accession number 3-16496, described as Wooden bench; carved from tree trunk; handle at one end; 42 cm long, 23 cm wide.

Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 3-2393, described as Blanket, red, blue and white pattern, heavy fringe. Length 36 inches, width 31 inches.

Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 3-29468, described as Blanket/couch cover/"throw," wool in doubleweave, one side has checkerboard design in red, turquoise and white with eagle and serpent motif, reverse has white ground with alternating red and turquoise eagle with serpent motif

Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 3-552, described as Woolen blanket; hand woven; with survival of ancient Mexican designs

Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 3-30358, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Candelabra, accession number 3-30762, described as Ceramic candelabra fashioned as a woman with uplifted arms and wearing a decorated skirt. “Blouse” is painted green; skirt is decorated with a painted design of repeated feather-like figures in blue, green, and black, highlighted with brown dots of various sizes. Above the hipline is a repetitive scallop pattern. Head has green hair and a topknot of unpainted clay decorated with scallops and crosshatching. The end of each arm forms a candleholder with a central spike for holding a candle in place. Each holder is decorated with a flower-like pattern on its top surface. The entire figure is glazed with a clear glaze that renders the figure a grey tone where not painted. Inside the base is a marking, which reads, “Mexico KE” followed by a potters mark of a leaping animal.

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