Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected at an unknown date by Daniel C. Stapleton (1858-ca. 1925, general manager of the Playa de Oro Mining Company based in Ecuador); probably given by him to Samuel A. Barrett (1879-1965, later Director of the Milwaukee Public Museum and Research Associate at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley) between 1908 and 1909 during fieldwork sponsored by George Gustav Heye and his mother, Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye (1845-1915).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Chachilla (Cayapas)
- Collector
- Daniel C. Stapleton (Daniel Casey Stapleton/D.C. Stapleton), Non-Indian, 1858-1920
- Expedition leader
- Samuel A. Barrett (Samuel Alfred Barrett/S.A. Barrett), Non-Indian, 1879-1965
- Expedition sponsor
- Marie A. Heye (Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye), Non-Indian, 1845-1915
- Object Name
- Woman's skirt
- Media/Materials
- Cotton yarn, wool yarn
- Techniques
- Woven
- Dimensions
- 84 x 120 cm
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments
