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Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 3-29982, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; one piece; warps ends cut and uncut creating a 7" fringe on each end;cut warp fringe is knotted in places. 300 cm x 18 cm. Native name/meaning: faja hombre/man's sash. Materials, techniques: cotton: 3 singles, red; 2 two-ply in red and blue. Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun in the 1980s (faja woven in 1985) and donated to the museum in 1991. Knots in red wefts appear on both sides of this piece. Parallel thin blue warp stripes evenly spaced on red background; cut fringe end is knotted. Present from Nimakachi family (Hun).
Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 3-29991, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; single-faced supp. weft brocading; one piece; warps cut and crocheted into tassels with pompoms added. 159.5 cm x 25.5 cm. Native name and meaning: Faja, Hombre/ Man's belt. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 3 and 4 singles in red; mercerized cotton (sedalina?): 2 two-ply in yellow, maroon, orange, gold; 4 two-ply in orange, purple, aqua; 6 two-ply in light and dark green, light and dark blue and white. Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun, who donated it to the museum in 1991. This faja has 2 areas of supp. weft multicolored yarns: one area is 15 inches in length and the other is 9.5 inches. Warps are crocheted into 10 tabs onto which pompoms of different colors are attached. Posts are worked into crochet work on one end before the tabs and are done in multicolors; total length of fringe is 4". "Observe intricacy of tassels." (Hun) Iconography consists of diamonds, zigzags, and triangles.
Hearst Museum object titled Headband, accession number 3-29971, described as Handband-loomed, weft-faced plain and tapestry weaves; one piece; warps cut; one 23" tassel at each end. 99 cm x 3 cm. Native name/meaning: Cinta/headband. Materials, techniques: Cotton: singles in white; Artisela (artificial silk): singles in black, yellow, purple, white, blue, pink, gold, grey, maroon, peach. Context of use: Alternating bands of geometric designs including rabbits, birds, "senoritas," zigzags, stylized florals, chevrons and horizontal stripes are repeated. Eccentric weft technique creates the rounded figures (Schevill:127). Warps have been cut and brought through a hollow corn cobb that is covered with cut tufts of artisela. Sisal warps of fringe are wrapped with artisela in a series of "figure 8s" with a cluster of silk at center; these are attached to braids of silk at the fringe ends.

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