A. Augustus Healy Fund

A. Augustus Healy Fund

A. Augustus Healy Fund

Frank Sherman Benson Fund and the Henry L. Batterman Fund

Small, heavily embroidered blouse or shirt. The two square sleeve panels are joined at the shoulders, with interwoven hand stitches, to the rectangular body panel with a squared head hole in the centre . Colourful floral designs in red, green, pink, purple, orange, blue and brown yarns completely cover a cream coloured undercloth. Possibly unfinished; sides and sleeves are not sewn together.

Square-shaped shirt made from one piece of rectangular cotton cloth stitched up the sides, with openings left at the top for the arms and a squared neck opening cut in the centre. The upper portion of the shirt has red, brown, blue, purple, orange and green geometric designs embroidered onto horizontal woven bands of purple, orange and green and has been pleated on both sides of the neck opening. The lower portion is a natural cream colour with bands of black and purple across the top and is gathered at the bottom of the pleat darts. Two strips of red ribbon with shiny gold circles edge the sleeves and neck.

Large square of light, loosely woven black and white fabric. White thread pattern of dotted lines in one direction and lines of oblongs in the other creates an overall check-like design. Two edges are finished with a band of tighter white weaving and short fringe, the other two are cut edges.

Long textile of woven cream-coloured cotton with red, black, blue and green embroidered designs. Made up of two panels with vertical bands of red, green and purple along one side and identical designs that are joined together with a centre seam of black handstitches. The rows of smaller embroidered motifs, which include birds and horses, change orientation from the middle section, of larger black emblematic designs, becoming upside down from each other.

Grey sleeveless dress with back zipper, made from light loosely woven cotton. A double layered frill falls from the neckline of the high waisted bodice portion of the dress, below two thin straps. The light gray cloth is decorated with horizontal rows of white square and rectangular designs.

Long piece of black and white woven cotton cloth. The patterning of the white threads is linear; groupings of three short lines of white are arranged in rows.