ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Altar Cloth with Double-Headed Eagles

Place CreatedChichicastenango, Guatemala, North America

CultureK'iche' Maya

Date1890

MediumCotton

Credit LineBright Collection of Guatemalan Textiles

Dimensions82 1/2 in. (209.6 cm)

Object number2009.042.034

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, Textile Rotation 2, July 1, 2013 - February 3, 2014
Threads 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/138.

ProvenanceEx coll. Samuel R. Bright, Jr. (1936-2001) and Mickey Paddock Bright Griffin, United States, purchased from Yuri Saldyt, New Mexico, July 1987.

Status

Not on view

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