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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Mexican
Title:Serape
Date Made:19th century
Type:Clothing
Materials:wool and cotton
Place Made:North America; Mexico; Coahuila; Saltillo
Measurements:whole: 90 x 46 in.; 228.6 x 116.84 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1955.714
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
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Description:
Woven serape with border of red diamonds on black ground interrupted at edges by spiked design in yellow and green or blue and rose, along the long sides. At ends border of horizontal stripes in red, rose, black, blue, and white. In center this mtive outlined in black or red ground, In the field, zigzags in border colors, one and two-toned with rows of white feathered diamonds at intervals.

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