MVC-0261 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Cloth; 57 x 120; length made of two equal pieces, machine stitched together along selvedges; off white cotton; double weft, double warp flat weave (basket weave). Addressed to E. L. Mossman (no postage or return address)
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Quito, Ecuador
Verbatim coll. place:
South America; Ecuador, Quito
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1965-1967
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Ink
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
“this was never used, and seems to be a sample weaving that Mrs. Mossman kept” fide Kathleen Vitale