- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Tortilla cloth. [FB 22/10/2013]
- Long description
- Tortilla cloth. The cloth is made from dyed blue cotton woven with red, yellow and green stripes. Both ends of the cloth have white fringing. [FB 22/10/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Totonicapán State Totonicapán
- Cultural groups
- Maya
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1980
- Date collected
- By 1980
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 03/07/2013
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Width: max 328 mm, Length: max 460 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2012.104.5 Other numbers: 97 G57 82
- Research and responses
Notes, names of villages given by donor. "82. Tortilla cloth, Totonicapan." [FB 28/10/2013]
Search terms: Food and Drink, Textile
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