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Items in Women's Work

  • Beadwork in triangular and geometric patterns of many colors, attached to a threaded “belt” and decorated at bottom with a row of cowrie shells dangling from gathered threads

    Women's Work Introduction

  • A print depicting several clothing lines of colorful, drying laundry hanging between two buildings and set against a bright blue sky of wispy clouds. Two women are laying on a bed of flowers and grass below the hanging laundry

    María Berrío’s Knitting the Wind

  • Open book with a printed chart describing “A Scale of Stockings and Socks” on the left page, while the right features a small knitted sock

    Instructions on needle-work and knitting

  • Open book with text describing the marking stitch and including, below the printed text and on the facing page, two stitched samplers demonstrating that technique

    Instructions on needle-work and knitting

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    Crown by Xenobia Bailey

  • Album open to a valentine of white cut paper in the shape of a lizard and foliage backed by red paper, with handwritten text in black ink across the bottom in two columns

    Elizabeth Cobbold’s valentines

  • Helmet-like mask of dark wood carved in the round, with a face at the front, and surrounded by a skirt of yellow and brown raffia strands

    Mask of the Sande Society

  • Nearly square textile of vertical stripes and triangles surrounded by multiple borders and including fabric of yellow, green, red, white, dark blue, and various plaids and stripes

    Men’s shoulder cape, Saamaka textile

  • Beadwork in triangular and geometric patterns of many colors, attached to a threaded “belt” and decorated at bottom with a row of cowrie shells dangling from gathered threads

    Women’s ceremonial dance apron from Northern Cameroon

  • An illustration of multiple spiders of varying sizes on a leafy branch, with a large spiderweb and additional spiders in the background

    Maria Sibylla Merian’s Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam 

  • An image of a woman leaning over her own reflection

    Mariette Pathy Allen’s Sherry

  • Open book printed on vellum with, text on the right and elaborate illuminated illustrations in vibrant colors on both pages

    Da Loria Norman’s Ecclesiastes, and The Song of Solomon

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    Lettres Mortes, Dechados Truncados by A.C.W.

  • Three prints in black and red ink, each showing a lone Black protagonist with a mask-like face

    Works from Alison Saar’s Arcade (Suite of Six)

  • Printed pages displayed side-by-side in a long horizontal box, with small stones placed on top of the printed letters

    Untitled by Ann Hamilton

  • Black-and-white photograph of a juniper tree, surrounded by a variegated border of black and red

    Ruth Lewis-Diné Elder by Dakota Mace

  • Printed title page of a book with text in archaic Yiddish and Russian and illustrated with scenes from the Bible

    Sefer Shemot:’im Targum Onḳelos

  • A photograph depicting the portrait of a man from the shoulders up, who is gazing off-camera

    Photograph of Carl Sadakichi Hartmann

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    Full Circle by Julie Chen

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    Common Threads by Candace Hicks

  • Color photograph of a young woman behind and with her arms around her parent Paula Sinclair, aka Paul Grayson, who wears a black feathered hat with a veil, and both look directly at the camera

    Mariette Pathy Allen’s photograph Paula and Daughter Lisa

    Not currently on view

  • A sepia-toned photograph in soft focus showing Bertha Jacques creating artwork at a press

    Elizabeth Buehrmann’s photograph Mrs. Bertha Jacques

    Not currently on view

  • Textile with five long skeins of unspun wool tied around a wooden rod and inscribed with the words of a stenciled poem in red pigment

    Chanccani Quipu by Cecilia Vicuña

    Not currently on view

  • Open book with text printed on the right page in black ink and on the left a very detailed depiction, also in black in, of spiders engaged in various activities

    Maria Sibylla Merian’s Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam

    Not currently on view

  • Beadwork in triangular and geometric patterns of many colors, attached to a threaded “belt” and decorated at bottom with a row of cowrie shells dangling from gathered threads

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