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Carrying cloth
Peruvian (or Bolivian)
late 19th or early 20th century
Medium/Technique
Wool
Dimensions
71 x 94.5 cm (27 15/16 x 37 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number21.2582
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionCarrying Cloth, made of two pieces sewed together. Warp: wool in colors to form pattern. Weft: blue wool with a little red and brown wool, covered by warp. Design: wide stripes of dark blue, narrow pink, cream white, and black stripes with narrow figured stripes woven with pink, cream, neutral violet, light bluish green, and yellow. Edged with blue.
ProvenanceBy 1920, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1835 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA [see note]; 1921, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 1, 1921)
NOTE: First lent by Ross to the MFA on April 1, 1920.
NOTE: First lent by Ross to the MFA on April 1, 1920.