Rebosa
- Museum number:
- 3-555
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000555
- Alternate number:
- 28 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.172
- Description:
- Extremely old, rare and curious hand-woven "reboso" or scarf worn by Indian women. Cotton "ikat"; indigo and white with blue anthropomorphic figures in band at both ends; 4 brown, indigo, and white bands lengthwise at both sides; fancy (macrame) warp ends; W 81 cm, total L 244 cm.
- Donor:
- Zelia Nuttall
- Collection place:
- Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Mexico; Southern Mexico
- Culture or time period:
- Mexican
- Collector:
- Zelia Nuttall
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Rebozos
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- 1905
- Context of use:
- According to Prof. Charles E. Rossbach of Dept of Design (3/4/68) this is Mexican although it resembles Indonesian ikats. In "Arte Popular de Mexico" published by Artes de Mexico (1963), intro. by Alfonso Caso, see color plate XV:A for silk tie dye rebozo from San Luis Potosi. Linear geometric design, elaborate macrame fringe. Spanish word for tie dye is "anudado.
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- length 244 centimeters and width 81 centimeters
- Comment:
- L-12-20
- Loans:
- S1971-1972 #113: City of Palo Alto (March 24, 1972–June 5, 1972), S1980-1981 #58: University of California, Davis (April 3, 1981–September 12, 1981), and S1986-1987 #20: Richmond Art Center (January 28, 1987–April 16, 1987)
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