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Traditional textiles of the Andes : life and cloth in the highlands : the Jeffrey Appleby collection of Andean textiles / edited by Lynn A. Meisch ... [and others].
Penn Museum Library F2230.1.T3 T73 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Appleby, Jeffrey.
- Indian textile fabrics--Andes Region--Exhibitions.
- Indian textile fabrics.
- Appleby, Jeffrey--Art collections--Exhibitions.
- Art museums.
- Exhibitions.
- Andes Region.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 157 pages : color illustrations, map ; 31 cm
- Other Title:
- Life and cloth in the highlands
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thames and Hudson ; San Francisco : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1997.
- Summary:
- Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this book features 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century indigenous textiles woven by the Aymara and Quechua peoples of the Andean Mountains. The elaborately patterned pieces are all drawn from the previously unpublished Jeffrey Appleby Collection and include everyday and ceremonial textiles of all types. 178 illus. 147 in color.
- Notes:
- "Published in conjunction with the exhibition To honor the ancestors: life and cloth in the Andes, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 21 June-19 October 1997"--Verso t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-152) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0500279853
- OCLC:
- 37568616
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