Faja
- Museum number:
- 3-32064
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030032064
- Alternate number:
- ACW 10 (previous number (collector's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4798
- Description:
- Faja, Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala.
- Donor:
- Anne Connell Wilson
- Collection place:
- Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- Kaqchikel
- Collector:
- Anne Connell Wilson
- Collection date:
- May 2004
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile) (tiny amount metallic thread?)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Waistbands
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- April 8, 2016
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- width 9 centimeters and length 218.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- Woven by Albertina’s niece. Purchased from Albertina Lopez Cumez [as she was then known] of SCP by (Ann C Wilson)ACW in Mendocino, CA, in May 2004. 2 paper tags attached to back of patterned area: (removed) —“ACW #10” —“Purchased from Albertina Lopez Cumez of Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala, at the Mendocino Art Center, Mdo, California, in May 2004, by ACW. Woven by Albertina’s niece." Single piece of weaving. One end has section of unwoven warp, followed by 3 stabilizing wefts, followed by warp loops. Other end has cut warp ends, with outer warps very loosely braided. Plain weave. Black warp with single red warp thread, consisting of doubled red thread woven as one thread, extending from braided warp end through most of patterning, where it abruptly ends (see detail photo). Multicolored single faced animal, plants, bird motifs of supplementary weft patterning covering roughly one half of length of faja. One or two rows of isolated patterned motifs in shiny blue thread or ribbon. Weaving reflects inexperienced weaver.
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