Utility Cloth

Servilleta

85-2-95C

Location: On Display in the Mexico and Central America Gallery

From: Guatemala | Palin | Department of Escuintla

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Servilleta
Object Number 85-2-95C
Current Location Mexico and Central America Gallery - On Display
Culture Pocomam
Provenience Guatemala | Palin | Department of Escuintla
Culture Area Central American
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Thin, white cotton ground with brocaded dots, birds and zigzag border. Old style design.

As per Sigrid Meier, "40 epi, single, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 26 ppi, single, Z twist, white cotton. Balanced plain weave. Supplementary weft is two faced. One panel, three selvedges. Woven on a backstrap loom."

Length 79 cm
Width 74 cm
Credit Line Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985
Other Number 95C - Other Number

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