MVC-0265 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Textile; 118 x 115 cm; multicolored wool; made from two panels embroidered together; border tape machine stitched multiple times around entire piece; main textile hand loomed; warp stripes, brown, blue some of which are patterned of orange and pink; machine made border band is blue; center embroidery joining panel machine made; multicolored arrows-warp faced stripes
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Peru
Verbatim coll. place:
South America; Peru
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1965
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
“similar cloths wrap and carry babies or are used in market to spread out items for sale; this piece shows a transition from fully hand finished to machine made finishing of hand loomed textile;” fide Kathleen Vitale