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A blaze of color : Mary Atwater and the Guatemalan textile tradition / by Ann Cordy Deegan ; photographs by the author.

Title
A blaze of color : Mary Atwater and the Guatemalan textile tradition / by Ann Cordy Deegan ; photographs by the author.
Author
Deegan, Ann Cordy, 1952-
Publication
Redlands, CA : San Bernardino County Museum Association, 2004.

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TextRequest in advance MUS.120.5.4 (51:2)Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Atwater, Mary Meigs
  • Atwater, Mary Meigs.
  • San Bernardino County Museum
Description
124 p., 12 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps, ports.; 28 cm.
Series Statement
San Bernardino County Museum Association quarterly ; v. 51, no. 2, 2004
Uniform Title
Quarterly (San Bernardino County Museum Association) v. 51, no. 2.
Alternative Title
  • Mary Meigs Atwater and the Guatemalan textile tradition
  • Mary Atwater and the Guatemalan textile tradition
Subject
  • Atwater, Mary Meigs > Travel > Guatemala
  • Atwater, Mary Meigs > Art collections > Catalogs
  • San Bernardino County Museum > Textile collections > Catalogs
  • Textile fabrics > Private collections > United States > Catalogs
  • Indian textile fabrics > Guatemala
  • Hand weaving > Guatemala > Patterns
  • Indians of Central America > Guatemala
  • Art objects, Guatemalan > Private collections > United States > Catalogs
  • Art, Guatemalan > Private collections > United States > Catalogs
  • Indian textile fabrics > Guatemala > Catalogs
  • Women art collectors > United States
  • Guatemala > Description and travel
Genre/Form
  • Catalogs
  • History
  • Patterns
Note
  • "At her death her collection moved into the hands of the Southern California Handweavers Guild ... who passed them on to the San Bernardino County Museum [in 1989].... "--P. 118.
  • Includes Mary Atwater's unpublished Guatemala journal; a reprint of Guatemala visited which was originally published in 1946; and, photographs from her collection of textiles that match descriptions in the two texts.
  • Includes "Glossary for costume and textile terms" (p. 119-121).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 122).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
OCLC
  • 54909556
  • SCSB-10142046
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library