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DepartmentTextiles-Latin America

Handspun boy's shirt

NameShirt

CultureMixtec

Datemid 1980s

Place madePinotepa de Don Luis, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

Place madePinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

Place collectedOaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

MediumCotton, coyuche (natural brown cotton), mollusk shell dye (Plicopurpura pansa)

Dimensions20 1/16 × 18 7/8 in. (51 × 48 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Ann and Paul Gerber, A.2016.65.4

Object numberA.2016.65.4

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionBrown boy's shirt with a purple tassel at neck. Decorative machine-stitched lines in purple and green around right sleeve, up front right, and down back left.

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