FMNH 192215.nosub[1]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History-Ethnology | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 13-8 | Provenience: Guatemala, Coban, Alta Vera Paz. | People of Culture: Kekchi | Object: Huipil | Material: Cotton | Description: 3 Strips of white shadow gauze, white brocaded in zig-zag motif, secured together with fagot stitching. Closing underarm seam. Square neck and seam openings decorated with floral embroidery in blue, purple, red, orange and green cotton embroidery thread and edged in purple buttonhole stitch. Bottom is finished with commercial scalloped eye-let edging. | Dimensions (in cm.): Length: 42.0; width: 93.0. | Collection: Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Louis O. Williams, 6/7/1976, (Collected by same, 1966) | [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 192215 | Field No. | Neg. No. 236 | Acc. 3318 | [BACK] [1 PHOTOGRAPH] 192215 |
Catalog Number: 192215.nosub[1]
Description: garment
Materials: cotton
Cultural Attribution: Kekchi
Accession Number: [3318] Williams, Louis O. and Mrs. (Gift)
Accession Year:
City/Town: Coban
Collector/Source: Williams, Louis O. and Mrs., Williams, Louis O. and Mrs.
EMu IRN: 1096211
GUID: 4c64bfd4-7ddb-4ab5-9e76-6631acc1d5b2

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