MAYA OF GUATEMALA - LIFE AND DRESS / MAYA DE GUATEMALA - VIDA Y TRAJE

Pettrsen, Carmen L. MAYA OF GUATEMALA - LIFE AND DRESS / MAYA DE GUATEMALA - VIDA Y TRAJE. Ixchel Textile Museum, Guatemala City, 1976. 4to., cloth, DJ, 274pp., text in English and Spanish, profusely illustrated with reproductions of 61 color paintings by Carmen Pettersen, most of which focus on clothing and the textiles from which it is made. Carmen Pettersen was born in Guatemala of an English father and Mexican mother. She studies painting in England, but returned to Guatemala and lived among the Mayan Indians for the rest of her life. The paintings and the text reveal the high regard she had for the Mayans. The original gouache paintings are in the Ixchel Museum of Traje in Guatemala City. Former owner's bookplate on the front free endpaper, else Fine in Fine DJ.