MVC-0282 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Banner; part of costume for Corpus Christi celebration; yellow ground with multicolor flowers, vines, people; three velvet half-circles appliqued along one edge. Silver foil strip at one end on pink cloth with light green ribbon; edges bound in orange fabric and cold-colored braid at top-layer of burlap with , cotton fabric on back. 100 x 22.5 cm.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Quito, Ecuador
Verbatim coll. place:
South America; Ecuador; purchased at Olga Fisch’s shop in Quito
Collector:
Kathleen Vitale
Collection date:
1965-1970
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Rayon, and Synthetic
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
Corpus Christi costume or banner part
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Dimensions:
length 100 centimeters and width 22.5 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: Dirty and stained, expecially at bottom and top; binding has frayed and small tears all around orange binding; braid on top was orange and has faded to gold.