Heavy carved brown leather coat with silver embroidery on back and silver bangles on front. Additional information: Charro jacket w/punched (?) designs, silver plated ornaments; metal and silk flamestich embroidery on back. Jacket has been remodeled, relined and reornamented. Fide Lynn Mason, 1987.
Donor:
Julean Arnold
Collection place:
Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Unspecified [card: "Probably Mexico"]
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Leather, Metal, and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Jackets (short coats)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1911
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Loans:
S1970-1971 #81B: Burckhalter Elementary School/Ann Schiebelhut (February 17, 1971–February 24, 1971), S1971-1972 #20: Club Juventad (September 30, 1971–October 13, 1971), S2003-2004 #7: Margaret E. Geiss-Mooney (April 30, 2004–July 1, 2004), and S2010-2011 #8: SFO Museum (June 1, 2011–May 22, 2012)