- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- blouse
- Geographical reference
- Chimaltenango State near Tecpan Comalapa
- Cultural groups
- Kaqchikel
- Person
- Field collector Elsie Colsell McDougall
- PRM source Elsie Colsell McDougall
- PRM source John Eric Sidney Thompson
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1946
- Date collected
- By 1946
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1946
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Textile Plant, Process Brocaded Woven
- Dimensions
- Length 560 mm, Width 990 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1946.6.37
- Associated publications
- Described in detail on pages 30-32 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, as figure 8 on page 31. [JC 15 7 2013]
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