Object name: Faja / Collection place: Huehuetenango (city), Huehuetenango, Guatemala - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-169, described as Woman’s waistband or faja. (Cotton warp covers straw or sisal weft. Red, blue, yellow. Warp ends braided. 1m 9cm long, 5 cm wide.)

Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-223, described as Faja, a woman’s waistband (Weft, some vegetal fiber, dyed lavendar. Warp: cotton, red, white and blues. Braided together at one end, gathered and tied at other. 1 m 18 cm long, 6 cm wide tapering to 4 cm at unbraided end.)

Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-231, described as Woman’s waistband (Cotton, thick weft. White, red, blue yellow, and purple. Warp braided at one end, gathered and tied at other. 1m 4 cm long, 5.5 +4.5 cm wide).

Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-220, described as Man’s waistband (Thin, red cotton cloth, edges hand hemmed. Fringe of multicolored commercial wool yarn, knotting never finished. 74 cm long with approximately 16 cm fringe on each end. 21.5 cm wide.)

Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-226, described as Woman’s waistband or faja (Cotton, plain weave, thick weft -stripes: red, white, yellow, blue-warp ends braided. 1 m 14 cm long, 6.8 at one end, tapering to 4 cm at the other.)

Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-198, described as Faja or woman’s waistband (a vegetal fiber weft covered by cotton warp. Stripes of red, brown, blues, yellow, and white. Warp ends braided together. 1m 30 cm long.)

Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-191, described as Woman’s waistband. (Some sort of vegetal fiber used for weft. Covered by cotton warp. Stripes of white, blues, red, yellow, and brown warp ends braided. 1m 30 cmlong, 5.5.cm wide.)

Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-210, described as Woman’s waistband (Cotton warp covered by weft. White, turquoise, purple yellow, and red stripes. One warp end braided, other end loose and uncut. Approximately 1m 6 cm long, 5.4 cm wide.)

Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-229, described as Woman’s waistband. (Weft: Some vegetal fiber, dyed lavendar. Warp:cotton, red, blue, and white- ends braided. 1m 16 cm long, 6 to 5 cm wide.)

Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-225, described as Faja, a woman’s waistband. Cotton, plain weave, thick weft-red, white, and blue stripes, wary ends, braided. Length: 1 m, 14 cm; width at one end: 7 cm; width: at other end.