Utility Cloth
Servilleta
85-2-75C
From: Guatemala | San Pedro Sacatepequez
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Servilleta |
| Object Number | 85-2-75C |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cakchiquel |
| Provenience | Guatemala | San Pedro Sacatepequez |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | White cotton with weft fringes. White ground with two horizontal bands, one band alternates between red and green. The other band made up with stripes of red, green, yellow and blue. Red selvedges on two sides. Visible floats on one side. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 28 epi, 3 singles, white (red singles in border). Weft: 18 ppi, 3 singles, white plain weave. Plain weave with weft pulled up into fringe. Fringe, red, green and white." |
| Length | 77 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 | 75C - Other Number |
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