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Scarf, one piece, white gauze weave with multicolored checkerboard patterns, fringes on both ends
Scarf, one piece, white gauze weave with multicolored checkerboard patterns, fringes on both ends
Object Number 2013.24.27
Display Title Scarf, one piece, white gauze weave with multicolored checkerboard patterns, fringes on both ends
Descriptions
Object Description Scarf, one piece, white cotton with multicolored cotton supplementary weft brocading, back strap loomed, one loom-finished selvage, the other cut warp fringe, leno or gauze and plain weave
Inventory Description Scarf, one piece, white cotton gauze weave with bands of yellow, green, and red cotton supplementary weft brocade in a checkerboard design, fringes on both ends
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 × 142 cm (18 1/2 × 55 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.27; 114
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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