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Object Number 986-5-20/26198
Display Title Napkin (servilleta)
Descriptions
Object Description Cloth length (napkins, servilletas), 3 breadths; actually 3 napkins connected by uncut fringes; white ground with red weft lines; no warp lines; single-faced brocade stylized red female figures with huge skirts and cyclops faces; floats; no embroidery; fringed both sides; stained; circular stains on back
Inventory Description Woven white cotton rectangular fringed cloth with red embroidery.
Classification
  • Woven
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Date 1930-1939 ca?
Culture
  • Highland Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / El Quiche / <County> / Santo Tomas Chichicastenango
Materials Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 120.5 x 40 x 0.1 cm (47 7/16 x 15 3/4 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 986-5-20/26198
Provenance
Collector Augustus Ledyard Smith (1930-1939 ca? - 1986)
Donor Augustus Ledyard Smith (1930-1939 ca? - 1986)

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