Textile

Museum number:
16-20310
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Alternate number:
MVC-0360 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Cloth: 53cm x 52cm; natural grey wool w/ multi-colored stripes and trassels on each corner Warp faced design in red, fuschia, orange, blue, green, white & black, Center band w/ 2 faced center stripe is brown & white, depicting 6 horses and riders & 2 women; 4 selvages; edge also finished in round stitch. Tassels, ca. 7 cm long, knotted on corners; 2 fuschia, 2 yellow.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Bolivia
Verbatim coll. place:
Bolivia?, attrib.
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1965
Materials:
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:
Made for sale
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Dimensions:
width 53 centimeters and length 52 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: Good; as purchased
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 16-20310, described as Cloth: 53cm x 52cm; natural grey wool w/ multi-colored stripes and trassels on each corner Warp faced design in red, fuschia, orange, blue, green, white & black, Center band w/ 2 faced center stripe is brown & white, depicting 6 horses and riders & 2 women; 4 selvages; edge also finished in round stitch. Tassels, ca. 7 cm long, knotted on corners; 2 fuschia, 2 yellow.

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