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Object Number 986-5-20/26214
Display Title Woman's shirt
Descriptions
Object Description Woman's shirt; stained white nylon body with crocheted cotton short sleeves; gauze-weave yoke attached front and back with synthetic red and white looped edging; yoke is decorated with cross-stitch floral pattern in dark purple, purple, dark green, green, dark pink, pink, red, orange, yellow, dark blue, blue, black; no collar, just neck decoration in a square arrangement; two widths one half as wide as the third - probably the back of the garment; hole in nylon patched with white cotton square
Inventory Description Shirt, white nylon with lace sleeves, cotton embroidered neck, floral design.
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Shirt
Department Ethnographic
Date 1930-1939 ca?
Culture
  • Highland Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Coban
Dimensions Overall: 52 x 63.5 x 0.8 cm (20 1/2 x 25 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 986-5-20/26214
Provenance
Collector Augustus Ledyard Smith (1930-1939 ca? - 1986)
Donor Augustus Ledyard Smith (1930-1939 ca? - 1986)

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