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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey, 2017.
Jacket for a Male Saint Effigy
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey, 2017.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey, 2017.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey, 2017.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Jacket for a Male Saint Effigy

Place CreatedSolola, Guatemala, Central America, North America
CultureKakchikel Maya
Date1915
MediumCotton, velvet
Credit LineBright Collection of Guatemalan Textiles
Dimensions9 in. (22.9 cm)
Object number2009.042.247
Exhibition HistoryThreads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017
Published ReferencesThreads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/145.
"Dressing the Saints: Catholic-Related Maya Textiles for the Santos/as," Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/dressingsaints.
ProvenanceEx coll. Samuel R. Bright, Jr. (1936-2001) and Mickey Paddock Bright Griffin, United States, purchased from Yuri Saldyt and Alice Hashimoto, Los Angeles, California, March 14, 1982.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas