Shawl

Museum number:
3-28110
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1344 (original number) and LMO 58 (previous number (collector's original number), LMO cat #)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.03
Description:
Woman’s ceremonial shawl. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, brocaded. Red ground, magenta, yellow stripes, varicolored designs. Animal, bird, floral, geometric motives. See Fig. 105, Textiles of Highland Guatemala. 50 inches x 46 inches
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection place:
San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala Dept, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala San Juan/Sacatepéquez
Culture or time period:
Guatemalan
Collector:
Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection date:
1936
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
height 127 centimeters and width 120 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 3-28110, described as Woman’s ceremonial shawl. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, brocaded. Red ground, magenta, yellow stripes, varicolored designs. Animal, bird, floral, geometric motives. See Fig. 105, Textiles of Highland Guatemala. 50 inches x 46 inches
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 3-28110, described as Woman’s ceremonial shawl. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, brocaded. Red ground, magenta, yellow stripes, varicolored designs. Animal, bird, floral, geometric motives. See Fig. 105, Textiles of Highland Guatemala. 50 inches x 46 inchesDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 3-28110, described as Woman’s ceremonial shawl. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, brocaded. Red ground, magenta, yellow stripes, varicolored designs. Animal, bird, floral, geometric motives. See Fig. 105, Textiles of Highland Guatemala. 50 inches x 46 inchesDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 3-28110, described as Woman’s ceremonial shawl. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, brocaded. Red ground, magenta, yellow stripes, varicolored designs. Animal, bird, floral, geometric motives. See Fig. 105, Textiles of Highland Guatemala. 50 inches x 46 inchesDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 3-28110, described as Woman’s ceremonial shawl. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, brocaded. Red ground, magenta, yellow stripes, varicolored designs. Animal, bird, floral, geometric motives. See Fig. 105, Textiles of Highland Guatemala. 50 inches x 46 inches

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