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Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
$500

Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
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  • Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
  • Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
  • Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
  • Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
  • Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
  • Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
  • Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
  • Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
  • Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez
  • Fine Indigo Saint’s Offering from San Pedro Sacatepéquez

The following item belongs to the range of “Antique and Rare Items of the Casa de Artes’ Treasures Series”.

 

One panel Saint’s Offering woven on a back strap loom. The piece has four selvedge ends. The designs are woven in. The piece has one damage on one of the sides. Zoomorphic designs: turkeys, sacrificed turkeys, magical figure (rooster’s body with Cyclops doll head), birds and ixcanel worm. Geometrical designs: corn plant, feather serpent and venus.

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Age: Approximately woven in the early 1950’s
Ethnic Group: Kakchiquel
Origin: San Pedro Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
Materials: Cotton, and silk; natural dyes: indigo.
Use: Saint’s Offering
Technique: Woven on a back strap loom
Size: Approximately 22” x 8”
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