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65 1951.31. Avskrift av Mrs Mc Dougalis originalotiket One of the two 5 1/2 ft long, 16 1/2 inch wide lengthg,which, seemed to a 33 inch width, serve as wrapped skirt-cloth Und blanket) of Miktec wome...
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65 1951.31. Avskrift av Mrs Mc Dougalis originalotiket One of the two 5 1/2 ft long, 16 1/2 inch wide lengthg,which, seemed to a 33 inch width, serve as wrapped skirt-cloth Und blanket) of Miktec women - region df Mixteca Baja - inarkettown PINOTEPA flo coast area of Southern OAXACA MEXICO. Womans dress., 1936, consisted of wrap- ped skirt 'cloth held by e21/2 - 3 inch Widepwarp patterned, fina belt.When abroad head and shoulders covered by white cotto .shewl fin1 moven - sometimesauze weave with brocaded end mbroidered decorations in murex purpie thread. Cotton is local© Traditional dyes of skirt cloth native indigo - stripes -murex purple and cochi- neal.synthetic and ('In 1936) traded in annual markets -.Tuguila in becemter HuaxpOlteptec in February had largely substituted the traditional indigo fere. Also synthetic red had substituted cochi- neal Murexdyed thread (patulo purpura) was still used. ' The cotton thread was dyed on the coast, or ? given as (in?) Acapulco The purple thread was locally treded skeins fine thread for decoration of tättonshawl, coerser for stripes of wo- mens skirttlothe Natural brown cotton also lotal crop. [ocr]
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