Garment: quechquemitl

Museum number:
3-32036
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030032036
Alternate number:
1031 (original number) and Foster 15 (attributed PAHMA number, temporary)
Accession number:
Acc.4792
Description:
Woven cloth, white with red embroidery; garment: poncho-like quechquemitl
Donor:
Estate of George M. Foster and George M. Foster
Collection place:
Puebla city, Puebla, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Samoniego, Puebla
Culture or time period:
Otomi
Collector:
George M. Foster
Collection date:
March 21, 1946
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Main garments
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 19, 2015
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Comment:
donor stapled note: "Otomi bo't Samoñego 3/21/46" George McClelland Foster Papers, 1934-2005 (Bancroft Library BANC MSS 2007/103) Travel Itineraries March 21, 1946 (Puebla, Puebla. Is Samaniego the name of a store? Today there is a jewelry store in Puebla called Samaniego.) [(Mar. 20) at Puebla; (Mar. 21) D.F.] JS 03/21/16
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Garment: quechquemitl, accession number 3-32036, described as Woven cloth, white with red embroidery; garment: poncho-like quechquemitlHearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Garment: quechquemitl, accession number 3-32036, described as Woven cloth, white with red embroidery; garment: poncho-like quechquemitlHearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Garment: quechquemitl, accession number 3-32036, described as Woven cloth, white with red embroidery; garment: poncho-like quechquemitlHearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Garment: quechquemitl, accession number 3-32036, described as Woven cloth, white with red embroidery; garment: poncho-like quechquemitlHearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Garment: quechquemitl, accession number 3-32036, described as Woven cloth, white with red embroidery; garment: poncho-like quechquemitl

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