Pacific Asia Museum - "Fashioning Domesticity; Weaving Desire - Visions of the Filipina" - Part 2

Part 2 of my visit to Pacific Asia Museum...

In addition to the ternos and vintage images of Filipinas, there was a glass enclosed case filled with Philippine handicrafts, jewelry, and ephemera.  There were spiral bound placards detailing each piece...

Overview of some of the objects...

The larger purse has a crocheted design while the other is a Gaddang change purse with beads.

Vintage hair comb - note the gold filigree detail:

Detail of  beaded comb:

Another placard:

This is a Bagobo bracelet/anklet made of beads, brass bell and pompoms.

Book of turn of the century Philippine Postcards by Jonathan Best.

Legend for the objects:

Another view of the purses, combs, slippers, necklaces and belt.

This is a bird carrying basket, along with necklace of brass bells from the T'boli tribe.

This was interesting...

The mirror/makeup container. I've never seen one of these before. It's made of brass...As Morris Day of the Time would say, "And in my bedroom...I have a BRASS...waterbed...":

This was the stereoscope...The left side of the photo card had an image of  a "primitive" Filipina while the right half of the photo card has a front view of a modern terno...

Overall, we enjoyed our visit to the museum as well as this particular exhibit. It's not very common to see anything Filipino in a museum at all. At the Junipero Serra Museum on Presidio Hill, there is a cannon made in the Philippines which was brought over during the Manila Galleon trade. At the Museum of Man, there was once an exhibit that featured various cultures - one of them included examples of Philippine clothing and featured artwork by local San Diego artist, Jose Morales. That exhibit has since been dismantled but it was cool to see while it was around. Otherwise, you'd be hard pressed to find anything Filipino related in a museum in San Diego even though our city has one of the largest populations of Filipinos in the U.S. (145,000 according to the 2000 census - those are the ones that are legally counted, ha ha, not the TNTs).

More photos on the rest of the Pacific Asia Museum coming soon as well as my post on the documentary we saw that same day, "Memories of a Forgotten War".