Needle

Museum number:
3-28054
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1839 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.03
Description:
[cat card Description: "Needles" with start of looping for bag Materials: maguey, reed needles Techniques: looping technique resembling knitting Colors: natural Dimensions: 20" long doubled Remarks: See Fig 58 b Textiles of Highland Guatemala LMO ]
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection place:
San Pedro La Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala, San Pedro La Laguna
Culture or time period:
Mayan
Collector:
Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection date:
1936
Materials:
Maguey fiber (looping, maguey/reed) and Reed
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Needles (piercing tools)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 52 centimeters and width 4 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Needle, accession number 3-28054, described as [cat card Description: "Needles" with start of looping for bag Materials: maguey, reed needles Techniques: looping technique resembling knitting Colors: natural Dimensions: 20" long doubled Remarks: See Fig 58 b Textiles of Highland Guatemala LMO ]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle, accession number 3-28054, described as [cat card Description: "Needles" with start of looping for bag Materials: maguey, reed needles Techniques: looping technique resembling knitting Colors: natural Dimensions: 20" long doubled Remarks: See Fig 58 b Textiles of Highland Guatemala LMO ]Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle, accession number 3-28054, described as [cat card Description: "Needles" with start of looping for bag Materials: maguey, reed needles Techniques: looping technique resembling knitting Colors: natural Dimensions: 20" long doubled Remarks: See Fig 58 b Textiles of Highland Guatemala LMO ]

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