Research Catalog

Title

Maya textiles of Guatemala : the Gustavus A. Eisen collection, 1902, the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the University of California at Berkeley / by Margot Blum Schevill ; with a historical essay by Christopher H. Lutz.

Author

Schevill, Margot.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lutz, Christopher, 1941-
• Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

Description

xiii, 295 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Subject

• Eisen, Gustavus A., 1847-1940 > Ethnological collections
• Eisen, Gustavus A., 1847-1940
• Eisen, Gustavus A. (1847-1940) > Collections ethnologiques
• Eisen, Gustavus A (1847-1940) > Collections ethnographiques
• Maya textile fabrics
• Indian textile fabrics > Guatemala
• Anthropology > Private collections
• Indian textile fabrics
• Textielkunst
• Maya's
• Kleding
• Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology
• Tecelagem
• Maias
• Tapecaria
• Tapecaria (colecoes em museus)
• Textiles et tissus maya
• Textiles et tissus > Guatemala
• Guatemala
• Guatemala > Antiquités > Catalogues

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285) and indexes.

Contents

Foreword / Burton Benedict -- 1. The Communicative Nature of Cloth and Clothing -- 2. The Eisen Guatemalan Textile Collection -- 3. Gustavus A. Eisen: 1847-1940 -- 4. The Late Nineteenth-Century Guatemalan Maya in Historical Context: Past and Future Research / Christopher H. Lutz -- 5. Textile Production -- 6. The Eisen Guatemalan Textile Catalogue -- App. A. Classification of Textiles and Textile-Related Objects in the Eisen Collection by Function and Type -- App. B. The "Cofradia" of the Indians of Guatemala / Gustav Eisen.

ISBN

• 0292751435
• 9780292751439
• 0292776659
• 9780292776654

LCCN

92018640

OCLC

• ocm26096687
• 26096687
• SCSB-2005575

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library