Napkin

Museum number:
3-23126
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2248
Description:
Napkin. Bleached muslin. Single flower embroidered on each of four corners in green, red, pink, purple, blue, and yellow commercial thread. Machine satin stitch. 51 cm. square. Cf. 25-3499. Bleached muslin and commercial embroidery. Servilleta means napkin in Spanish. Used by all as a towel, tablecloth, and to wrap and cover food.
Donor:
Susan Weikel Palmer and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Pisté, Tinum Municipality, Yucatán
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Yucatán; Pisté
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
Susan Weikel Palmer
Collection date:
January 8, 1967
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Napkins (culinary textiles)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1967
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 51 centimeters and width 51.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Napkin, accession number 3-23126, described as Napkin. Bleached muslin. Single flower embroidered on each of four corners in green, red, pink, purple, blue, and yellow commercial thread. Machine satin stitch. 51 cm. square. Cf. 25-3499. Bleached muslin and commercial embroidery. Servilleta means napkin in Spanish. Used by all as a towel, tablecloth, and to wrap and cover food.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Napkin, accession number 3-23126, described as Napkin. Bleached muslin. Single flower embroidered on each of four corners in green, red, pink, purple, blue, and yellow commercial thread. Machine satin stitch. 51 cm. square. Cf. 25-3499. Bleached muslin and commercial embroidery. Servilleta means napkin in Spanish. Used by all as a towel, tablecloth, and to wrap and cover food.

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