Shirt

Museum number:
3-27242
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030027242
Accession number:
Acc.3057
Description:
Shirt, not seamed at sides or under sleeves. Embroidered yoke, bands at cuffs and across front middle. Back considerably longer than front. Length (front) 103 cm. Length (rear) 147 cm. Mexico, Oaxaca, Zacatepec, Mixteca Baja. 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:
Shirts (main garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 144 centimeters and length 146 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shirt, accession number 3-27242, described as Shirt, not seamed at sides or under sleeves. Embroidered yoke, bands at cuffs and across front middle. Back considerably longer than front. Length (front) 103 cm. Length (rear) 147 cm. Mexico, Oaxaca, Zacatepec, Mixteca Baja. 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 Shirt, accession number 3-27242, described as Shirt, not seamed at sides or under sleeves. Embroidered yoke, bands at cuffs and across front middle. Back considerably longer than front. Length (front) 103 cm. Length (rear) 147 cm. Mexico, Oaxaca, Zacatepec, Mixteca Baja. 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

Tools