Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased in 1951 by anthropologist Beate R. Salz (1913-2006) from weaver and dealer Rosa Sedano, at a Sunday fair in Huancayo, Peru, during MAI fieldwork supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Quechua
- Seller
- Rosa Sedano, Quechua
- Collector
- Beate R. Salz, Non-Indian, 1913-2006
- Expedition sponsor
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated (Viking Fund, Inc.), 1941-
- Object Name
- Blanket
- Media/Materials
- Wool yarn, alpaca hair yarn
- Techniques
- Woven, embroidered
- Dimensions
- 122 x 112 cm
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Outerwear (flat)
- Indigenous Term
- manto
