Cloth

Museum number:

3-32041

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21030032041

Alternate number:

Foster 20 (attributed PAHMA number, temporary)

Accession number:

Acc.4792

Description:

Woven cloth, multicolored striped pattern.

Donor:

Estate of George M. Foster and George M. Foster

Collection place:

Juliaca, Department of Puno, Southern Peru

Verbatim coll. place:

Jaliaca, Peru

Collector:

George M. Foster

Collection date:

1947

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Textile samples

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: "Jaliaca, Peru Mar, 1947" George McClelland Foster Papers, 1934-2005 (Bancroft Library BANC MSS 2007/103) Travel Itineraries March, 1947 (Juliaca, Peru) [(Feb. 8) Panagra DC-4 to Guayaquil.; (Feb. 9) Panagra DC-3 to Chiclayo via Talara; (Feb. 10) Hired car 125 miles to Trujillo, meet Holmberg and McBryde. Side trip to Viru.; (Feb. 13) drive 350 miles to Lima, until 18th; (Feb 18) Faucett monomotor to Arequipa; (Feb 19) train to Puno; (Feb. 20) train to Cuzco; (Feb. 24) train and mule to Machu Pichu, overnight, back the 25th; (Feb 26) train to Juliaca and sleeper to Arequipa; (Mar. 1) Faucett plane to Lima; (Mar. 5) Panagra DC-3 to Quito via Guayaquil, Chiclayo, Talara. Met by Aníbal and Barbara Buitron.] JS 03/22/16

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