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Scarf, one piece, white gauze weave with bands of multicolored geometric and figural designs
Scarf, one piece, white gauze weave with bands of multicolored geometric and figural designs
Object Number 2013.24.26
Display Title Scarf, one piece, white gauze weave with bands of multicolored geometric and figural designs
Descriptions
Object Description Scarf, one piece, backstrap loomed, white cotton withmulticolored cotton supplementary weft brocading, old dye colors, cut warp fringe, leno or gauze weave
Inventory Description Scarf, one piece, white cotton gauze weave with bands of multicolored cotton supplementary weft brocade of geometric and figural designs in bands
Classification
  • Scarf
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Coban
Materials Cotton , Dye
Dimensions Overall: 47 × 190 cm (18 1/2 × 74 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.26
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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