ClassificationsArt of the Americas
Backstrap Loom
Place CreatedGuatemala, Central America, North America
CultureMaya
Date20th Century
MediumCotton, wood
Credit LineBright Collection of Guatemalan Textiles
Dimensions47 x 22 3/4 in. (119.4 x 57.8 cm)
Object number2009.042.547
Exhibition HistoryThreads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017Published ReferencesThreads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/111.
"The Ties that Bind: Ancient Maya Textiles and the Modern Tradition," Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/tiesbind.
ProvenanceEx coll. Samuel R. Bright, Jr. (1936-2001) and Mickey Paddock Bright Griffin, United States.
Status
Not on viewCollections
- Art of the Americas
1000-1470 CE
ca. 1925
early 20th Century
