skirt;
costume
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.1.b
- Description
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Wrap-around skirt (part of woman's costume); woven on backstrap loom with cotton; blue weft (indigo-dyed?) with red and white warp-patterned stripes.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Length: 69.50 centimetres
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Width: 157 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Cordry, Donald and Dorothy. Mexican Indian Costumes. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1968 p. 310-11; Sayer, Chloë. Mexican Costume. London: British Museum Press, 1985 pp. 164, 209.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977-1978, London, Horniman Museum
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- Objects collected during the 1970s by Chloë Sayer and Marcos Ortiz. They were exhibited in 1977-1978 at the Horniman Museum, and later acquired by the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1978,15.1.b