Loom

Museum number:
3-28049
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1857 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.03
Description:
Model loom with warp set for net with end fringes Materials: Wood loom with cotton warp Technique: Spanish derived colors: white warp Dimensions: 6" beams Remarks: see fig 19j, Textiles of Highland Guatemala LMO
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection place:
Panajachel, Sololá, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala Panajachel
Culture or time period:
Mayan
Collector:
Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection date:
1936
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Looms (textile tools)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 15.5 centimeters and length 74 centimeters
Comment:
Cat card says technique is "spanish derived" but this is indigenous loom NOT Spanish floor loom.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 3-28049, described as Model loom with warp set for net with end fringes Materials: Wood loom with cotton warp Technique: Spanish derived colors: white warp Dimensions: 6" beams Remarks: see fig 19j, Textiles of Highland Guatemala LMO
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 3-28049, described as Model loom with warp set for net with end fringes Materials: Wood loom with cotton warp Technique: Spanish derived colors: white warp Dimensions: 6" beams Remarks: see fig 19j, Textiles of Highland Guatemala LMODocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 3-28049, described as Model loom with warp set for net with end fringes Materials: Wood loom with cotton warp Technique: Spanish derived colors: white warp Dimensions: 6" beams Remarks: see fig 19j, Textiles of Highland Guatemala LMO

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