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Headdress, men's ceremonial head and shoulder covering, red with yellow and purple stripes, multicolored bird and geometric images in corners and at center
Headdress, men's ceremonial head and shoulder covering, red with yellow and purple stripes, multicolored bird and geometric images in corners and at center
Object Number 2013.24.8
Display Title Headdress, men's ceremonial head and shoulder covering, red with yellow and purple stripes, multicolored bird and geometric images in corners and at center
Descriptions
Object Description Man's ceremonial headdress, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, red cotton with yellow and purple cotton vertical stripes, two faced multicolored cotton and silk supplementary weft brocading, animal and geometric images.
Inventory Description Headdress, men's ceremonial head and shoulder covering, two pieces sewn together partially with a multicolored silk randa, red cotton with yellow and purple cotton stripes, multicolored cotton and silk supplementary weft brocading of bird and geometric images in squares corners and in a rectangle at center
Classification
  • Headdress
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Guatemala / <County> / San Juan Sacatepequez
Materials Dye , Cotton , Silk
Dimensions Overall: 127 × 112 cm (50 × 44 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.8
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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