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Married couple. The woman is weaving a girdle and man is making a stool
Married couple. The woman is weaving a girdle and man is making a stool
Object Number 40-88-20/76388.1.27
Display Title Married couple. The woman is weaving a girdle and man is making a stool
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: Huichol / Mexico: State of Jalisco / Tuxpan District / Married couple. The woman is weaving a wide girdle for her husband. THe man (foregrd) is making a stool / All photos copyright by Edwin Forgan Myers
Keywords
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • People and Family
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • weaving
  • Wife
  • stool making
  • husband
Department Photographic
Date 1938
Artist Edwin F. Myers
Culture
  • Huichol
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Mexico / Jalisco
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 7.9375 × 10.795 cm (3 1/8 × 4 1/4 in.)

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