Hammock

Museum number:
3-29966
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4579
Description:
Knotless nettings. 33 cm x 13 cm. Native name/meaning: hamaca, muneca/hammock, doll's. Materials, techniques: Cotton, two-ply n light blue, red, yellow, pink, dark blue. Context of use: Purchased in mercado artesanias in Guatemala City for $2.25. Multicolored yarns are twisted and netted into a small hammock; the arms are single two-ply yarns of dark blue looped through the end of the stripes making up the netted "sprang-like" body of the hammock and brought together at either end. There they are wrapped with another dark blue yarn from where the hammock is hung; on either end is a pink and blue tie.
Donor:
Margot Blum Schevill
Collection place:
Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Guatemalan
Collector:
Margot Blum Schevill
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Hammocks
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Hammock, accession number 3-29966, described as Knotless nettings. 33 cm x 13 cm. Native name/meaning: hamaca, muneca/hammock, doll's. Materials, techniques: Cotton, two-ply n light blue, red, yellow, pink, dark blue. Context of use: Purchased in mercado artesanias in Guatemala City for $2.25. Multicolored yarns are twisted and netted into a small hammock; the arms are single two-ply yarns of dark blue looped through the end of the stripes making up the netted "sprang-like" body of the hammock and brought together at either end. There they are wrapped with another dark blue yarn from where the hammock is hung; on either end is a pink and blue tie.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hammock, accession number 3-29966, described as Knotless nettings. 33 cm x 13 cm. Native name/meaning: hamaca, muneca/hammock, doll's. Materials, techniques: Cotton, two-ply n light blue, red, yellow, pink, dark blue. Context of use: Purchased in mercado artesanias in Guatemala City for $2.25. Multicolored yarns are twisted and netted into a small hammock; the arms are single two-ply yarns of dark blue looped through the end of the stripes making up the netted "sprang-like" body of the hammock and brought together at either end. There they are wrapped with another dark blue yarn from where the hammock is hung; on either end is a pink and blue tie.

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