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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
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Guatemala
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Alta Verapaz
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<County>
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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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