Towel

Museum number:
3-28263
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Alternate number:
3576 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Towel; linen beaded towel [card: hand written "hand spun cotton"], [card: crossed off "natural linen"] cloth with horizontal bands of heavy threads in same color; each wide area of plainweave has either 6 or 7 figures of men, women, animals, birds, plants of tiny varicolored beads woven into ground cloth; each end trimmed with 9 cm band of triangular areas of various multicolored beadwork and 2 cm tassles/ 62 X 87.5 cm. Miss Virginia Mix to UCB Dept of Design - transferred to LMA.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; unspecified
Collector:
Olive Jennings Youngblood
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Glass (material), and Linen (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
Judged by Design Dept to be 19th century "because of extreme fineness.
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 62 centimeters and length 87.5 centimeters
Comment:
Special needs: rolled
Loans:
S1987-1988 #38: Cornell University (March 1988–October 5, 1988)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 3-28263, described as Towel; linen beaded towel [card: hand written "hand spun cotton"], [card: crossed off "natural linen"] cloth with horizontal bands of heavy threads in same color; each wide area of plainweave has either 6 or 7 figures of men, women, animals, birds, plants of tiny varicolored beads woven into ground cloth; each end trimmed with 9 cm band of triangular areas of various multicolored beadwork and 2 cm tassles/ 62 X 87.5 cm. Miss Virginia Mix to UCB Dept of Design - transferred to LMA.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 3-28263, described as Towel; linen beaded towel [card: hand written "hand spun cotton"], [card: crossed off "natural linen"] cloth with horizontal bands of heavy threads in same color; each wide area of plainweave has either 6 or 7 figures of men, women, animals, birds, plants of tiny varicolored beads woven into ground cloth; each end trimmed with 9 cm band of triangular areas of various multicolored beadwork and 2 cm tassles/ 62 X 87.5 cm. Miss Virginia Mix to UCB Dept of Design - transferred to LMA.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 3-28263, described as Towel; linen beaded towel [card: hand written "hand spun cotton"], [card: crossed off "natural linen"] cloth with horizontal bands of heavy threads in same color; each wide area of plainweave has either 6 or 7 figures of men, women, animals, birds, plants of tiny varicolored beads woven into ground cloth; each end trimmed with 9 cm band of triangular areas of various multicolored beadwork and 2 cm tassles/ 62 X 87.5 cm. Miss Virginia Mix to UCB Dept of Design - transferred to LMA.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 3-28263, described as Towel; linen beaded towel [card: hand written "hand spun cotton"], [card: crossed off "natural linen"] cloth with horizontal bands of heavy threads in same color; each wide area of plainweave has either 6 or 7 figures of men, women, animals, birds, plants of tiny varicolored beads woven into ground cloth; each end trimmed with 9 cm band of triangular areas of various multicolored beadwork and 2 cm tassles/ 62 X 87.5 cm. Miss Virginia Mix to UCB Dept of Design - transferred to LMA.

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