skirt
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- Description
A handwoven posahuanco, or wedding skirt, composed of three panels with caracol-dyed, navy, and magenta-colored stripes with central warp-patterned decorations. This skirt was worn by a woman in Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca ca. 1950s for her wedding.
Donated by C. Frances Bristol, 2006 ;purchased by C. Frances Bristol from owner, Lucrecia Tapia de Lopez, (possibly via someone named Roberto ? whom the FB CC indicates had had it for three years) in 1972.
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Beloit College
- Collection
- Bristol Collection
- Subjects
- Mixtec
- Location
- Mesoamerica
Mexico
Oaxaca (s) Jamiltepec (d) Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (m) Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (ip) - Format
- Woven - Loom - Backstrap loom --Woven - Warp-faced --Woven - Complementary Warp WeaveYarn: Cotton yarn --Yarn: Silk --Dyes: Caracol/Shellfish dye
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- skirt. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://dcms.beloit.edu/cdm/ref/collection/logan/id/6122. (Accessed March 19, 2024.)
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- skirt. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://dcms.beloit.edu/cdm/ref/collection/logan/id/6122
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://dcms.beloit.edu/cdm/ref/collection/logan/id/6122>.