cloth
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.154
- Description
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Cloth; made of factory-made calico/cotton; rectangle of off-white cloth (manta in Spanish) embroidered in satin stitch with multicoloured cotton thread; motifs include sun at centre, turkey above peacock at right, butterfly and two animals at left, fish above sun, flower to right, animal with plant in mouth below.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Length: 98 centimetres
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Width: 173 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Smaller cloths were initially used locally as servilletas, but in recent years larger ones have been made for sale. See Sayer, Chloë. Mexican Costume. London: British Museum Press, 1985 p. 159.
- 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
- Am1978,15.154