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Mantel, table covering, two panels sewn together, dark blue and white with two faced patterning
Mantel, table covering, two panels sewn together, dark blue and white with two faced patterning
Object Number 2013.24.51
Display Title Mantel, table covering, two panels sewn together, dark blue and white with two faced patterning
Descriptions
Object Description Mantel, table cover, floor loomed, two pieces joined in center, selvages cut and hemmed, dark blue and white cotton two faced patterning, loom controlled
Inventory Description Mantel, table covering, two panels sewen together, dark blue and white with two faced patterning, fringe at both ends
Classification
  • Table cloth
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Totonicapan / <County> / San Francisco El Alto
Materials Cotton , Dye
Dimensions Overall: 87 × 200 cm (34 1/4 × 78 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.51
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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