"Design for Cretonne Drapery Fabric" Presents a Caribbean-esque, extravagant, fanciful, or excessively, or playful clothing they would wear during the Harlem Renaissance era.
The other design shows a seated statue that evokes African art, whose torso is festooned with a diamond “dazzler” pattern that recalls Navajo weaving conventions of the 1880s and 1890s. This demonstrates how references to a multiplicity of cultures and media phenomena seemed to flow effortlessly and copiously from the well of Jones’s creative impulses.