Utility Cloth
Servilleta
85-2-95B
From: Guatemala | Palin | Department of Escuintla
Curatorial Section: American
Native Name | Servilleta |
Object Number | 85-2-95B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Pocomam |
Provenience | Guatemala | Palin | Department of Escuintla |
Culture Area | Central American |
Section | American |
Materials | Cotton |
Description | Cotton, white ground with red borders on two sides, all over brocading with double headed eagle, animals, birds, brocaded floral design brocaded on four sides. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 32 epi, 2 singles, Z twist, white cotton. Border - 46 epi, 2 singles, Z twist, blue and red cotton. Weft: 16 ppi, 2 singles, blue and red cotton. Warp and warp faced plain weave. Supplemental weft - two faced. 1 panel - 3 selvedges. Made on a backstrap loom." |
Length | 78 cm |
Width | 82 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 | 95B - Other Number |
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