Woman's manta
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by Carl R. Berman (1915-1990, an artist and explorer) and his wife Blanche Polsky Berman (1913-2012) during travel in South America in the 1950s; donated to NMAI by Blanche Berman in 1997
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- circa 1950
- Catalog Number
- 25/4544
- Barcode
- 254544.000
- Culture/People
- Quechua
- Collector
- Carl R. Berman, Non-Indian, 1915-1990
- Blanche P. Berman (Blanche Polsky Berman), Non-Indian, 1913-2012
- Previous owner
- Carl R. Berman, Non-Indian, 1915-1990
- Blanche P. Berman (Blanche Polsky Berman), Non-Indian, 1913-2012
- Donor
- Carl R. Berman, Non-Indian, 1915-1990
- Blanche P. Berman (Blanche Polsky Berman), Non-Indian, 1913-2012
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Outerwear (flat)
- Object Name
- Woman's manta
- Media/Materials
- Wool yarn, dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Dyed, woven, sewn
- Place
- Pisac; Calca Province; Cusco (Cuzco) Region; Peru
- See related items
- Quechua
- Clothing/Garments: Outerwear (flat)
- Record ID
- NMAI_270502
- Usage
- CC0
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