[Aztlan] Mayan Textiles depiction request

[Stephanie Wood]

Dear Barbara

If you go to the Virtual Mesoamerican Archive and search  
"textiles" (or textile) in the Digitized Materials database quick  
search, you get 7 to 10 hits.  Some of these are FAMSI photos.

Best wishes
Stephanie Wood
Director, VMA


On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Dacus, Chelsea wrote:

> Dear Barbara,
>
> The Kerr portfolio on http://www.famsi.org has a lot of images of  
> Jaina
> figures weaving.  Try this:
> http://research.famsi.org/portfolio_thumbs.php?_allSearch=Weaving&date_a
> dded=&x=0&y=0
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:09:12 EDT
> From: Siekba at cs.com
> Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Aztlan Digest, Vol 29, Issue 15
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> Greetings from a first-time poster, :-)
>
> In reference to Mike Ruggeri's following post re: Mayan textiles, I am
> interested in the looms used.  Were they of the backstrap variety  
> or?  I
> would be grateful if members might kindly lead me to sources of
> pictorial evidence of Maya weaving from their pottery or murals?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Barbara Siek
>
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Stephanie Wood, Ph.D.,
Associate Director and
Senior Research Associate,
Wired Humanities Project
1201 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403-1201
U.S.A.

Tel. 541-346-5771
swood at uoregon.edu