Blouse. White, heavily embroidered in colors. Cross-stitch pattern. Cotton. Embroidered in cross-stitch pattern. Purchased from Samoniego in Puebla; shop just behind the cathedra. According to Alejandro de Avila Blomberg (1984), textiles from this area became popular in the tourist market in the early 1960s and the quality deteriorated markedly, as evident in this piece. This piece was purchased for 90.00 pesos; current rate of exchange, 12.50 pesos to $1.00. See Cordry and Cordry for a photograph of one of the old pieces assigned to San Francisco Chapantla, which does not seem to be a village in this area.
Donor:
George M. Foster
Collection place:
Acaxochitlán region, Hidalgo, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Otomi
Collector:
George M. Foster and Mary LeCron Foster
Collection date:
Summer 1958
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blouses (main garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1958
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 59 centimeters and width 57 centimeters
Loans:
S1967-1968 #59: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (November 22, 1967–November 29, 1967), S1967-1968 #90: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (February 14, 1968–February 26, 1968), and S1968-1969 #140: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (November 12, 1968–November 12, 1968)