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De Palitos

85-2-353

From: Guatemala | San Miguel Totonicapan | Department of Totonicapan

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name De Palitos
Object Number 85-2-353
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Quiche
Provenience Guatemala | San Miguel Totonicapan | Department of Totonicapan
Culture Area Central American
Section American
Materials Wood | Muslin | Cotton
Description

For making belts, belt in progress, red white and blue cotton, eight wooden tools [shuttle etc] and wooden bars at either end, all attached to a piece of white muslin.

Length 177 cm
Width 72.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985

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