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2023.37.25

Baby's hat of red fabric decorated with supplementary weft brocaded motifs in various colours.

2023.37.25

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Collection type
Object
Description
Baby's hat of red fabric decorated with supplementary weft brocaded motifs in various colours.
Long description
Baby's hat constructed from a small rectangle of woven red fabric. The piece is hand-joined with red cotton to form a tube and gathered into pleats at one end to form a conical shaped garment. The predominantly warp-faced ground cloth is decorated with columns of single-faced supplementary weft brocaded motifs, including stacked chevrons and maize designs. These have been woven in white, pink, yellow, green, purple and blue mercerised cotton and acrylic threads. The red thread used in the warp in the predominantly rayon thread referred to as 'rojo alemán'.
Cultural groups
Mam
Person
Maker Family of Chepe (José)
Other owner Chepe (José)
Field collector Krystyna Deuss
PRM source Krystyna Deuss
Date / Period
Date made: By March 1985
Date collected
Purchased March 1985
Acquisition information
Donated: 19 June 2023
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Synthetic Yarn, Process Woven, Process Stitched, Process Supplementary Weft Woven, Process Brocaded Woven, Material Synthetic Textile
Dimensions
Height x Width 215 x 230 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2023.37.25 Other numbers: C 85
Research and responses

Information supplied by the collector/donor Krystyna Deuss:

In the 1950s and 1960s rather than carry babies in their decorative su’tes, women used a separate woven white cloth with occasional composite red stripes (2023.37.24). By the late 1980s only a few of these textiles were still in use, substituted by either the decorative su’tes, or cheaper commercial Totonicipán utility cloths or shawls. However, the custom of wrapping specially woven striped lengths of cloth around small children who are too young to wear skirts or trousers still continued (2023.37.26). Babies usually wore home woven hats (2023.37.25).

See Related Documents File for more detail. [JMC 26/11/2024]

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