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Textile, white with dense multicolored designs of geometrics, birds, and humans in black, yellow, blue and red
Textile, white with dense multicolored designs of geometrics, birds, and humans in black, yellow, blue and red
Object Number 2013.24.109
Display Title Textile, white with dense multicolored designs of geometrics, birds, and humans in black, yellow, blue and red
Descriptions
Object Description One piece, floor loomed, possibly part of a huipil, selvages cut and hemmed, white cotton with dense blue, red, black, yellow, purple and green cotton two faced supplementary weft brocading, bird and geometric images
Inventory Description Textile, white with dense multicolored cotton supplementary weft brocading in the center containing geometrics, birds, and humans in black, yellow, blue, and red, ends are undecorated white cotton
Classification
  • Fabric
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Quetzaltenango / <County> / Quetzaltenango
Materials Cotton , Dye
Dimensions Overall: 44 × 188 cm (17 5/16 × 74 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.109
Credit Line Gift of Mary Dodge Cobb in memory of Bertha Sanford (Wiener) Dodge and Carroll William Dodge, who together collected these Guatemalan textiles
Provenance
Collector Bertha Sanford Dodge
Collector Carroll William Dodge
Donor Donated by Mary Dodge Cobb

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