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Servilleta, small multipurpose cloth, white with bands of red and blue designs and multicolored zoomorphic images
Servilleta, small multipurpose cloth, white with bands of red and blue designs and multicolored zoomorphic images
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> / San Juan Comalapa
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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