Serape

Museum number:
3-15695
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
21 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1193
Description:
Serape. Wool in tapestry weave, cotton fringe. Brown ground with dots (red, white, blue, green, yellow). Diamond center motif and border-- both have geometric pattern of brown, red, orange, yellow, blue, grey. 1 m 17 cm by 2 m 10 cm without fringe. Wool in weft face tapestry weave with kelim slits. Cotton warp. “Mexican-aniline style” (E. Boyd, D. Bowen, 1973). see 3-15988-98
Donor:
Frederick H. Douglas Memorial Collection
Collection place:
Coahuila, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Northern Mexico, att.
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
Frederick H. Douglas
Materials:
Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sarapes
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1956
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 236 centimeters and width 114 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Serape, accession number 3-15695, described as Serape. Wool in tapestry weave, cotton fringe. Brown ground with dots (red, white, blue, green, yellow). Diamond center motif and border-- both have geometric pattern of brown, red, orange, yellow, blue, grey. 1 m 17 cm by 2 m 10 cm without fringe. Wool in weft face tapestry weave with kelim slits. Cotton warp. “Mexican-aniline style” (E. Boyd, D. Bowen, 1973). see 3-15988-98
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Serape, accession number 3-15695, described as Serape. Wool in tapestry weave, cotton fringe. Brown ground with dots (red, white, blue, green, yellow). Diamond center motif and border-- both have geometric pattern of brown, red, orange, yellow, blue, grey. 1 m 17 cm by 2 m 10 cm without fringe. Wool in weft face tapestry weave with kelim slits. Cotton warp. “Mexican-aniline style” (E. Boyd, D. Bowen, 1973). see 3-15988-98

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