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Object Number
2013.24.12
Display Title
Servilleta, small multipurpose cloth, white with bands of red and blue designs and multicolored zoomorphic images
Descriptions
Object Description
Servilleta, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, white cotton, warps cut create fringes on both ends, multicolored cotton and wool two faced supplementary weft brocading, varied designs, could be used as a sampler, dense brocading on top and bottom
Inventory Description
Servilleta, small multipurpose cloth, white cotton with cotton and wool two faced supplementary weft brocade bands of red and blue designs at either end and multicolored two and three legged zoomorphic images, fringe at both ends
Classification
- Napkin
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
/
Guatemala
/
Chimaltenango
/
<County>
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San Juan Comalapa
Materials
Dye , Cotton , Wool
Dimensions
Overall: 51 × 54 cm (20 1/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2013.24.12; 18
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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