Weaving Implement
42-35-248B
From: Guatemala | San Antonio Aguas Calientes | Department of Sacatepequez
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 42-35-248B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Pokomam |
Provenience | Guatemala | San Antonio Aguas Calientes | Department of Sacatepequez |
Culture Area | Central American |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Bamboo | Cotton | Silk |
Technique | Woven | Embroidered |
Description | 1 cloth bar; 1 warp bar; 3 shed sticks [1 for wrapping finished cloth]; 1 heddle; 1bamboo gauge bar; 1 bobbin; 1 spindle [with whorl] used as bobbin; 1 sword. Cloth cotton, dark blue with woven parallel meander in white at each end; compound stripes of medium blue, green, lavender, yellow, red. Small embroidered animals and flowers in yellow, green, lavender, red cotton and 1 rose silk animal. Almost finished. |
Length | 91 cm |
Width | 6 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
Other Number | 169 - Collector Number |
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