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1946.6.13

Woman's garment with sleeves attached, and square-cut neck. Of black wool, embroidered in colours. Embroidery unfinished.

1946.6.13

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Collection type
Object
Description
Woman's garment with sleeves attached, and square-cut neck. Of black wool, embroidered in colours. Embroidery unfinished.
Geographical reference
Mexico
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Mexico
Northeast Puebla State near Tezuitlan Tlatlauqui
Cultural groups
Totonac
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1938
Date collected
? 1938
Acquisition information
Donated: 1946
Materials and processes
Material Wool Textile Animal, Process Woven, Process Embroidered
Dimensions
Width 590 mm, Length 570 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1946.6.13
Research and responses

TLATLAUQIE = hieroglyph of Totonac place, c.f. ANALE DEL MUSEO NACIONAL, Vol. VII, 49-76. Also in Codex Mendoza, tribute roll. TLATLAUQUI = ‘lugar de los bermejos' or ‘place of the red worm' (i.e. cochineal). Cochineal was sold in the market at Tlatlauqui: this was verified in 1935.

Associated publications
Described in detail on pages 74-75 of The McDougall Collection of Indian textiles from Guatemala and Mexico (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Papers on Tecnology, 2), by Laura E. Start (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford). Also illustrated in a line drawing, as figure 31 on page 74. [JC 15 7 2013]

Search terms: Clothing, Tunic

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