Maya Culture and Costume: A Catalogue of the Taylor Museum's E. B. Ricketson Collection of Guatemalan Textiles [Paperback]

Christine Conte (Author)

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• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Ctr (February 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916537005
• ISBN-13: 978-0916537005
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Essential but not without faults, May 7, 2000

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This review is from: Maya Culture and Costume: A Catalogue of the Taylor Museum's E. B. Ricketson Collection of Guatemalan Textiles (Paperback)

Scholarly books about Guatemalan textiles are scarce. Therefore, this is an important contribution; it is not without flaws. Maya Culture & Costume documents an important collection of Guatemalan textiles, the collection of the Taylor Museum, collected during the late 1920's and early 1930's by E.B. Ricketson, archaelogist and ethnographer. Photographs of the pieces from the Taylor collection are supplemented by and compared to pieces from other collections. Because the Ricketson pieces were collected during such a narrow range of time, the pieces can be dated accurately to stem from 1934 or earlier. Many pieces in other collections cannot be so accurately dated. This is clearly a strength of the the collection and the book. Anyone seriously interested in Guatemalan textiles should be familiar with this book. However, more color plates would have been helpful, and some pictures are too small to be useful.