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Shawl, between 1200 BCE and 1535 CE

  • Precolumbian

Wool and cotton

  • Overall: 66 × 21 inches (167.6 × 53.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund

71.15

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Details

Mr. and Mrs. Julio Navarro-Monzo (Argentina)

1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Precolumbian, Shawl, between 1200 BCE and 1535 CE, wool and cotton. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 71.15.

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