ACW 15 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4798
Description:
Shawl, Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala.
Donor:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection place:
Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Kaqchikel
Collector:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection date:
ca. 2012
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
April 8, 2016
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 180 centimeters and width 58 centimeters
Comment:
Gift from Bertina Lopez Cumez to ACW ~ 2012. 2 paper tags on back of shawl near one end: (removed) —“ACW #15” —“Shawl. Gift to ACW from Bertina Lopez Cumez of Santa Catarina Palopó in San Francisco, CA, ~ 2012." Shawl. Cut warps at both ends with simple knotting. Plain weave. Warp stripes in warp ikat alternate with narrow singlecolor warp stripes or very narrow 2-color warp stripes, the latter created with warp threads in 2 alternating colors. Some dark blue and some dark green warp threads were spun with one strand of metallic, shiny thread in, respectively, blue or green (see detail photo).