Recataloged to 2-47037

Museum number:

3-2389

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Accession number:

Acc.562

Description:

Poncho remnant; wool; white ground with indigo bands; terraced indigo diamonds broken by narrow yellow and dark pink bands; fragment of yellow-green cotton cloth at head opening; poor condition; selvage gone. One-ply wool yarn, cotton cloth; tapestry weave; both Z and S-twist raveled yarns; raveled pink and red are dyed with cochineal (see Joe Ben Wheat letter in accession envelope).

Donor:

Estate of Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Mexico

Collector:

unknown

Collection date:

1860-1869

Taxon:

Dactylopius coccus

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Placeholder record (no associated object)

Function:

2.1 Daily Garb

Production date:

ca. 1860s

Accession date:

1920

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area