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Art of the Ancient Americas
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Hand loom
ca. 1930
Wood, cotton, and wool
Loom (a): 21 × 20 in. (53.3 × 50.8 cm)
Heddle stick (b): 16 7/8 × 5/16 dia. in. 0.8 cm. (42.9 × 0.8 dia. cm. )
Heddle stick (b): 16 7/8 × 5/16 dia. in. 0.8 cm. (42.9 × 0.8 dia. cm. )
The Harriet Engelhardt Memorial Collection of Textiles, from the estate of Black Mountain College through a gift of Mrs. Paul Moore
1958.13.79
Geography:
Mexico
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Mexican
Period:
Contemporary
Classification:
Tools and Equipment
Provenance:
Harriet Engelhardt Memorial Collection. Mrs. Paul Moore, to 1958; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye and Michael D. Coe, Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2017), 51, fig. 24.
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