Sarape, wool diamond decor, Warp 17-19, weft 62-78. Length 94 inches, width 54 inches; red-purple in two values, yellow-greens and dark olive green, balanced throughout the design, with bright, medium-blue and white, used for contrast, Stylistically “the concentric diamond with details of floral character.”
Donor:
Estate of Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico, Cohuila
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
September 10, 1920
Materials:
Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sarapes
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1920
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 131 centimeters and width 236 centimeters
Loans:
S1966-1967 #98: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Ruth Boyer (April 24, 1967–May 26, 1967), S1971-1972 #113: City of Palo Alto (March 24, 1972–June 5, 1972), and S1972-1973 #97: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (May 15, 1973–May 16, 1973)