- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Shawl
- Geographical reference
- Oaxaca Sierra de Juarez San Miguel Cajonas
- Person
- Field collector Elsie Colsell McDougall
- PRM source Elsie Colsell McDougall
- PRM source John Eric Sidney Thompson
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1946 Archaeological period: Zapotec
- Date collected
- By 1946
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1946
- Dimensions
- Length 2100 mm, Width 470 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1946.6.25
- Associated publications
- Described in detail on pages 77-78 of The McDougall Collection of Indian textiles from Guatemala and Mexico (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Papers on Technology, 2), by Laura E. Start (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford). Also illustrated in a line drawing (detail only), as figure 32c on page 78. [JC 15 7 2013]
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