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Mayo Sarape ca. 1960 Sonora, Mexico Catalog Information |
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This Mayo weaver is making a sarape. She sits at a horizontal loom and pulls horizontal (or weft) threads through a section of vertical (or warp) threads. This weaving by sections is called the tapestry technique, and the Mayos use it to produce both sarapes and cobijas. Top: Mayo weaver, ca. 1978, on Río Mayo between Álamos and San Bernardo, Sonora, Mexico. Photographer: Eugene H. Boudreau. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Boudreau Collection, Photo Lot 99-47 |
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