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- Museum number:
- 3-186
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000186
- Alternate number:
- 186 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.47 and Acc.61
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Woman’s cloth for wrapping tortillas. Cotton. Basketweave twill brocade. White with red, yellow, green, and blue warp forms. Short fringe on ends. Approximately 60 cm long, 80 cm wide.
- Donor:
- Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Huehuetenango (city), Huehuetenango, Guatemala
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Huehuetenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- Mam and Maya
- Collector:
- Gustavus A. Eisen
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.5 Household and 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- October 20, 1902
- Department:
- Cat. 3 - Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Area
- Dimensions:
- width 78 centimeters and length 120 centimeters
- Comment:
- See Eisen archives in museum library. See also Schevill p. 116; references below
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