Textile
- Museum number:
- 3-566
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000566
- Accession number:
- Acc.172
- Description:
- Specimen of “ayate” or stuff woven of twisted threads of agave fiber
- Donor:
- Zelia Nuttall
- Collection place:
- Guanajuato, Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Mexico, Oaxaca, Mazatec
- Culture or time period:
- Mexican
- Collector:
- Zelia Nuttall
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Taxon:
- Agave deserti
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Textile samples
- Function:
- 2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
- Accession date:
- 1905
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- width 38 centimeters and length 33 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
-