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The following is from: Maya Culture & Costume by Christine Conte (The Taylor Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1984) pp. 7-8. This book is the most comprehensive survey of Guatemalan textiles from the major collections of the United States and Canada.

"Dating from the 1900s to the late 1970s, these collections represent a more complete record of Maya textile history than can be observed in Highland Guatemala today, given that most garments (except those made expressly for special occasions) are worn more or less continuously and consequently do not last more than a few years. With this in mind, nine of the most comprehensive collections were selected for study and comparison with that of the Taylor Museum. The primary resource for locating and selecting the collections to be studied was the list of major museum and private collections of Guatemalan textiles compiled by Dr. Hilda Pang of Indiana State University. Within these collections, only garments from villages represented in the Taylor Museum were studied. The collections are as follows:

Institution, Private Collector	Original Collector	Dates of Collection	Approximate # of Items
University of Alberta Edmonton	Ann Lambert	1975	1,000
The American Museum of Natural History	Rev. H. Th. Heyde Emil Mosongi Herbert J. Spinden	1901 1907 1917	600
Gordon Frost Newhall, California (now Point Reyes, California)	Gordon Frost	1965-1975	5,000
The Heard Museum, Phoenix	James F. Bell	1970-1971	200
Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley	Gustav Eisen	1901	500
Museum of Cultural History, University of California Los Angeles	Caroline and Howard West	1970s	300
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge	Howard H. Tewkesbury Edith B Ricketson Ruth Reeves Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Williams Dr. S. K. Lothrop	1930s 1932 1934 1933 1930s	500
The University Museum of the of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia	Lilly de Jongh Osborne --- Robert Burkett Howard H. Tewkesbury Ruben Reina	1930s 1940s 1919-1920 1936-1940 1969-1970	600
The Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center	Edith B. Ricketson	1932-1934	300

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