Table Cloth / Mantle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Nov 1988
name: label: Collector
content: Dr Isabel Kelly
label: Donor Name
content: Amelia De Langenscheidt
notes: label: Notes
content: SMALL RECTANGULAR CLOTH OF WHITE COTTON PLAINWEAVE, THE GROUND CLOTH WOVEN OF MACH-SPUN YARNS. ZIGZAG, ANIMAL AND BIRD DESIGNS IN RAISED WEFT LOOP WEAVE (W/HANDSPUN YARNS). BOTH ENDS HAVE ELABORATE HAND-KNOTTED FRINGE. OFTEN USED AS HEAD TRAY COVERS. COLLECTOR'S NOTES: "MADE BY NICOLASA DE LEON. GIFT OF ELLA. [DESIGNS:] SATASKULI [? TRIANGLE DESIGNS], PAJARO [BIRD], PERROS [DOGS], SATASKULI [?], MUNECA [DOLL], PAJARITOS [SMALL BIRDS]." ILLUS. AND DISCUSSED IN KELLY AND PALERM, 1952, PL. 29, 31, PP. 227-235.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: El Tajin, Veracruz, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Totonac
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 364366
label: USNM Number
content: E424380-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tablecloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Excluding Fringe
content: 39 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 34.5 cm