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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey, 2017.
Morga (Woman's Skirt)
© 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

Morga (Woman's Skirt)

Place CreatedTotonicapan, Guatemala, Central America, North America
CultureK'iche' Maya
Dateca. 1925
MediumCotton
Credit LineBright Collection of Guatemalan Textiles
Dimensions34 in. (86.4 cm)
Object number2009.042.002
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/130.
ProvenanceEx coll. Mrs. Betty L. Hunt, Hot Springs, Arkansas, purchased from John Menser [The Menser Collection], Dallas, Texas, June 3, 1976. Ex coll. Samuel R. Bright, Jr. (1936-2001) and Mickey Paddock Bright Griffin, United States.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas