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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Mexican
Title:Rug (Alfombra)
Date Made:18th or 19th century
Type:Floor Covering
Materials:wool
Place Made:North America; Mexico
Measurements:whole: 57 1/2 x 39 in.; 146.05 x 99.06 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1955.709
Credit Line:Gift of the children of Dwight W. Morrow (Class of 1895) and Elizabeth C. Morrow
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

Description:
Border with hexagonal design in white, blue, and blue-green on dark red ground, edged in dark blue. In field, hexagonal motif in center becomes a floral motif in the corners. The rest of design includes a 3-branch candelabra-like mofif and flatteneded 6-point stars in yellow, blue-green, white and red on a dark red ground.

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