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Object Number 986-5-20/26181
Display Title Man's shirt
Descriptions
Object Description Man's pull-over shirt; a tourist piece, "style for westerner"; red cotton indigenous cloth ground; no warp or weft line floats; brocade is all geometric motifs (chevrons) close together, in white, yellow, violet, blue; zig-zag design on upper torso and sleeves; attached (factory-made) blue velveteen collar, placket (with 2 buttonholes) and cuffs with floral embroidery in shiny threads of yellow, white, green, pink, crimson; the shirt is in 4 dimensions and has an inner lining
Inventory Description Shirt, long, velor trim with linear and floral embroidery.
Classification
  • Shirt
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Date 1930-1939 ca?
Culture
  • Highland Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Quetzaltenango / <County> / Almolonga
Additional Geographic Terms Lake Atitlan region
Dimensions Overall: 88.9 x 165.7 x 2.2 cm (35 x 65 1/4 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 986-5-20/26181
Provenance
Collector Augustus Ledyard Smith (1930-1939 ca? - 1986)
Donor Augustus Ledyard Smith (1930-1939 ca? - 1986)

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