Chest and diamond-twill skirt fabric

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The Red That Colored the World


Chest and diamond-twill skirt fabric. Chest, Olinala, Guerrero, México, ca. 1850. Wood, paint, 15 x 33 x 13 in. Museum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.1979.25.1.  Skirt fabric, ca. 1950s, Teotitlán del Valle, México, wool dyed with cochineal, Courtesy of Walter Anderson

Usage: Courtesy Museum of International Folk Art

Credit: Photograph by Addison Doty


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