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White linen tea towel with draw work by Antonia A. Rocha of Topeka. Born in Mexico, her family later immigrated to Kansas where her father worked for the railroads. She learned draw work from her mother when she was a child, and she practiced her craft on her siblings' diapers. Rocha was a Master Artist of Mexican Draw Work for the Kansas Folk Art Apprentice Program co-sponsored by Kansas Historical Society and the Kansas Arts Commission.
Creator: Rocha, Antonia A.
Date: between 1995 and 2000
Item Number: 319709
KSHS Identifier: 2015.43.3
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Decorative arts
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Folk
Date - 1990s
Home and Family - Daily life - Housework - Sewing
Objects and Artifacts - Furnishings - Household Accessory - Towel, Show
People - Hispanics
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - The Recent Past, 1975 - present
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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