Pants

Museum number:
3-27241
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3057
Description:
Pants. Drawstring, band of embroidery around legs, multi-colored thread on white cotton. Length 73 cm. Width 62 cm. Mexico, Zacatepec, Mixteca Baja, Oaxaca. Cotton, embroidery. Part of a man’s costume, 3-27241-43 References: F. Toor, Mexican Folkways, Plate 38; Donald Cordry, “Mexican Indian Costumes”, Plate 223
Donor:
Robert Miller
Collection place:
Oaxaca, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico, Oaxaca, Mixtec
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
Alma Capen and Robert Miller
Collection date:
1940s
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Trousers
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 81 centimeters and width 72 centimeters
Comment:
Special needs: lightweight
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pants, accession number 3-27241, described as Pants. Drawstring, band of embroidery around legs, multi-colored thread on white cotton. Length 73 cm. Width 62 cm. Mexico, Zacatepec, Mixteca Baja, Oaxaca. Cotton, embroidery. Part of a man’s costume, 3-27241-43 References: F. Toor, Mexican Folkways, Plate 38; Donald Cordry, “Mexican Indian Costumes”, Plate 223
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pants, accession number 3-27241, described as Pants. Drawstring, band of embroidery around legs, multi-colored thread on white cotton. Length 73 cm. Width 62 cm. Mexico, Zacatepec, Mixteca Baja, Oaxaca. Cotton, embroidery. Part of a man’s costume, 3-27241-43 References: F. Toor, Mexican Folkways, Plate 38; Donald Cordry, “Mexican Indian Costumes”, Plate 223

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