Old woven “serape”; medium blue, black, white and brown in the mosaic; brown, red-brown, vermillion (orange-red), turquoise, blue and white on the black ground of the center and border; stylistically “the circular medallion and the large-scale mosaic”; warp 13-14, weft 36-48, size 48.5 in x 80 in
Donor:
Zelia Nuttall
Collection place:
Coahuila, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
Zelia Nuttall
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sarapes
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Loans:
S1964-1965 #21: Anthropology Department, Vallejo Junior College/Everett F. McCartney (October 22, 1964–November 17, 1964) and S1966-1967 #98: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Ruth Boyer (April 24, 1967–May 26, 1967)