Garment, quechquemitl

Museum number:

3-32029

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

Foster 8 (attributed PAHMA number, temporary)

Accession number:

Acc.4792

Object count:

1

Description:

cotton woven garment; quechquemitl

Donor:

Estate of George M. Foster and George M. Foster

Collection place:

Necaxa, Puebla, Mexico

Verbatim coll. place:

Altapec (?) Pue. Santa Ana (?) Pue., Hdo?

Production place:

Jaltepec, Puebla, Mexico

Collector:

George M. Foster

Collection date:

March 17, 1946

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

2.1 Daily Garb

Accession date:

June 19, 2015

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area

Comment:

donor stapled note: "Altapec (?) Pue. Santa Ana (?) Pue., Hdo? bo't Necaxa, Pue. 3/17/46 town Mexicano" George McClelland Foster Papers, 1934-2005 (Bancroft Library BANC MSS 2007/103) Travel Itineraries March 17, 1946 (Nueva Necaxa, Puebla and Acaxochitlán, Hidalgo. These towns are about a 50 minute car ride apart and close to Huachinango. He was in Huachinango on the 17th) [(March 17) Lv. San José Purua via Pachuca for Huachinango and volador “dance”, then to Papantla and horses to Tajín. Then Nautla and Teziutlán, and Veracruz.] JS 03/21/16

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