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Backstrap loom
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Object Number 2013.24.193
Display Title Backstrap loom
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 brocading, animal, human, geometric images, attached to the warp bar, woven backstrap of shiny fiber
Inventory Description Backstrap loom, wooden needle for pickup, Tamahu textile, dark blue cotton with multicolored cotton single and two faced supplementary weft brocading, animal, human, geometric images
Classification
  • Loom
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Tamahu
Materials Wood , Cotton , Fiber , Dye
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.193 2013.24.193
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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