Backstrap loom
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Jan 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1969
name: label: Collector
content: Charles D. Kleymeyer
label: Donor Name
content: Charles D. Kleymeyer
notes: label: Notes
content: Backstrap loom with partially- woven fabric still attached. Total of 8 sticks of different thicknesses and types of wood form the loom. Top and bottom sections of the fabric are woven, with unwoven warp threads in the middle. The fabric is warp-predominant plain-weave with paired warps and wefts. It is dark blue with thin pink warp stripes. Elaborate multi-colored motifs on bottom half depict mythical creatures and small stylized birds. These are woven in with discontinuous supplementary wefts ("brocade").
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nahualá, Solola Department, Guatemala, Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maya
label: Culture
content: Quiche (K'iche') Maya
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2029974
label: USNM Number
content: E431494-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Loom / Textile
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 126.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 94.3 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 3 cm