cloth
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.155
- 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 cotton thread; motifs include large and small red and green striped animals (dogs?).
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Length: 89 centimetres
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Width: 188 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
- Am1978,15.155