DepartmentTextiles-Latin America
Handspun boy's shirt
NameShirt
CultureMixtec
Datemid 1980s
Place madePinotepa de Don Luis, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
Place madePinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
Place collectedOaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
MediumCotton, coyuche (natural brown cotton), mollusk shell dye (Plicopurpura pansa)
Dimensions20 1/16 × 18 7/8 in. (51 × 48 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Ann and Paul Gerber, A.2016.65.4
Object numberA.2016.65.4
DescriptionBrown boy's shirt with a purple tassel at neck. Decorative machine-stitched lines in purple and green around right sleeve, up front right, and down back left.
early 1980s
early 1980s
Ca. 1960
ca. 1979
Mid-late 20th century
