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Backstrap loom with textile
Backstrap loom with textile
Object Number 2013.24.228.1
Display Title Backstrap loom with textile
Descriptions
Object Description Backstrap loom, backstrap, wooden needle for pickup, typical Tamahu textile, dark blue cotton with multicolored cotton single and two faced supplementary weft brocade animal, human geometric images, attached to the warp bar; woven backstrap of shiny fiber.
Inventory Description Loom, backstrap, wooden needle for pickup, typical Tamahu textile, dark blue cotton with multicolored cotton supplementary weft brocade animal, human geometric images, attached to the warp bar
Classification
  • Woven
  • Loom
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Tamahu
Materials Wood , Cotton , Dye , Fiber
Dimensions Width: 75 cm (29 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.228.1
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 (11/20/2013)

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