Artefact
Artefact
Credit Line
gift of Mrs Eunice Rogers, 1989, collection of Auckland Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1992.14, T1396
Public Access Text
Before she died at the age of eighteen, Ada Burfoot embroidered these shelf runners for her family home in Karangahape Road.
Primary Maker
Place
Date
Circa 1898
Period
Media
Measurement Description
height 190 x width 450 mm (.1-.2)
height 200 x wdith 530 mm (.2-.3)
Measurement Reading
190mm
450mm
190mm
450mm
200mm
530mm
200mm
530mm
Classification
Last Update
12 Sep 2019
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banner, fundraising
Department HistoryAccession Date 1992Accession Number 1992.142Description banner, fundraising, rectangular cotton banner of cream colour, the left hand side with a painted figure group of a wounded soldier (seated) and a kneeling Red Cross nurse…
banner, fundraising, rectangular cotton banner of cream colour, the left hand side with a painted figure group of a wounded soldier (seated) and a kneeling Red Cross nurse beneath which reads `NOT YET OUT OF DANGER' The RHS bearing the painted message `THEY'RE DOING / THEIR BEST, / LET US DO / OURS' the lettering in an Art Nouveau style painted in royal blue.
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sunbonnet
Department Applied Arts and DesignAccession Number 1992.141Description sunbonnet, cotton, the `body' of squarish form, the inner of which features a casing and cotton tape of gathering cord, with a wide brim of the same fabric, stiffened by…
sunbonnet, cotton, the `body' of squarish form, the inner of which features a casing and cotton tape of gathering cord, with a wide brim of the same fabric, stiffened by stitching over rows of covered cord, with four ties, the fabric cream ground (originally white?) with an all-over small abstract print in pink, each form outlined in red.
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