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Mantel, table cloth, white with orange, black, and blue geometric designs, fringes
Mantel, table cloth, white with orange, black, and blue geometric designs, fringes
Object Number 2013.24.52
Display Title Mantel, table cloth, white with orange, black, and blue geometric designs, fringes
Descriptions
Object Description Mantel, table cover, floor loomed, one piece, wefts create fringes, multicolored cotton and wool with orange a predominat color, black patterns, loom controlled
Inventory Description Mantel, table cloth, white with orange, black, and blue geometric designs in cotton and wool, fringes 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 , Wool
Dimensions Overall: 137 × 68 cm (53 15/16 × 26 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.52
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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