Textile
- Museum number:
- 16-20275
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21160020275
- Alternate number:
- 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:
- width 22.5 centimeters and length 100 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.
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