Blanket

Museum number:
16-20389
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0643 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Cloth: double panels, sewn together with braid edging; back strap woven; predominately brown and pink with multicolored stripes; old, dirty and worn.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
La Paz Department, Bolivia
Verbatim coll. place:
South America, Bolivia, the altiplano overlooking La Paz
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1965
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blankets (coverings)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Comment:
Purchased as an “old” example of the weaver’s work. Slide of this piece is in Mr. Mossman’s slide collection
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 16-20389, described as Cloth: double panels, sewn together with braid edging; back strap woven; predominately brown and pink with multicolored stripes; old, dirty and worn.

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