Toalla
- Museum number:
- 3-153
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000153
- Alternate number:
- 153 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.47 and Acc.61
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Woman’s garment (toalla). (Cotton basketweave. Red with green, yellow, and blue stripes. Multicolored satin brocading. Blue and yellow warp stripes edge. 72 cm x 79 cm). Remarks: For the color green, the fiber is cotton and the dye must be retested for indigo. For the color red, the fiber is cotton and the dye result is madder.
- Donor:
- Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- San Lucas Tolimán, Sololá, Guatemala
- Verbatim coll. place:
- San Lucas Toliman, Solola, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- Kaqchikel and Maya
- Collector:
- Gustavus A. Eisen
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile) and Silk (floss)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- October 20, 1902
- Department:
- Cat. 3 - Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Area
- Dimensions:
- length 79 centimeters and width 72 centimeters
- Comment:
- See Eisen archives in Museum library. See acc. envelope. See also references below.
- Images:
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