Embroidered textile

Museum number:
3-28540
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Accession number:
Acc.4176
Description:
Landscape, embroidered; triangular burlap scene with landscape in varicolored yarn on burlap; small wood house painted red to right of tree with stick trunk; at apex of triangle three carved and red-painted "plaques", one which says "MASYA", the other "NICARAGUA." Fringed on two sides and backed with commercial cloth. height 20 cm.
Donor:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection place:
Nicaragua
Collector:
Barbara E. Busch
Materials:
Burlap
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
November 1986
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Embroidered textile, accession number 3-28540, described as Landscape, embroidered; triangular burlap scene with landscape in varicolored yarn on burlap; small wood house painted red to right of tree with stick trunk; at apex of triangle three carved and red-painted "plaques", one which says "MASYA", the other "NICARAGUA." Fringed on two sides and backed with commercial cloth. height 20 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Embroidered textile, accession number 3-28540, described as Landscape, embroidered; triangular burlap scene with landscape in varicolored yarn on burlap; small wood house painted red to right of tree with stick trunk; at apex of triangle three carved and red-painted "plaques", one which says "MASYA", the other "NICARAGUA." Fringed on two sides and backed with commercial cloth. height 20 cm.

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