Object Notes

This chair, with its turned stretchers joining the legs, baluster-shaped turnings under the arms, and woven rush seat, suggests earlier chairmaking traditions.

Although this superb looking glass has a history of American ownership, like the great majority of similar examples which graced Colonial houses, it was made in England.

Elongated nabau, the ferocious giant water serpents, are placed along the sides of the central panel, or "main body," to contain the deities on this cloth.

The female figure within the central rondel of this textile is the goddess Indo' Samadenna (Mother All There Is), depicted with a golden spinning wheel she won in a quarrel with her sister and brought to the moon.