Faja, hombre

Museum number:
3-29972
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030029972
Accession number:
Acc.4518
Description:
Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; one piece; warp ends cut; fringe at each end created by twisting cut warps (fringe is 7" long). 132 cm x 7.5 cm. Native name/meaning: faja, hombre/man's belt. Materials, techniques: Wool: 1 two-ply in brown and white (white very soiled and looks tan). Embroidery in cotton: 3 singles dark blue and 6 two-ply in green. Context of use: At either end of this piece, there is darning with dark blue over the tear and green cotton stitching in double rows across end before fringe. Alternating brown and white narrow warp stripes are turned into the fringe at each end due to the cut warps. Additional white wool is introduced into the white warps at fringe ends (this wool is 2 two-ply). The cut warp ends are twisted and knotted into monochrome fringes, alternating like the stripes in white and brown tassels.
Donor:
Miguel Hun
Collection place:
Totonicapán, Totonicapán Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Totonicapan, Guatemala
Collector:
Miguel Hun
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Waistbands
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
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Hearst Museum object titled Faja, hombre, accession number 3-29972, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; one piece; warp ends cut; fringe at each end created by twisting cut warps (fringe is 7" long). 132 cm x 7.5 cm. Native name/meaning: faja, hombre/man's belt. Materials, techniques: Wool: 1 two-ply in brown and white (white very soiled and looks tan). Embroidery in cotton: 3 singles dark blue and 6 two-ply in green. Context of use: At either end of this piece, there is darning with dark blue over the tear and green cotton stitching in double rows across end before fringe. Alternating brown and white narrow warp stripes are turned into the fringe at each end due to the cut warps. Additional white wool is introduced into the white warps at fringe ends (this wool is 2 two-ply). The cut warp ends are twisted and knotted into monochrome fringes, alternating like the stripes in white and brown tassels.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Faja, hombre, accession number 3-29972, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; one piece; warp ends cut; fringe at each end created by twisting cut warps (fringe is 7" long). 132 cm x 7.5 cm. Native name/meaning: faja, hombre/man's belt. Materials, techniques: Wool: 1 two-ply in brown and white (white very soiled and looks tan). Embroidery in cotton: 3 singles dark blue and 6 two-ply in green. Context of use: At either end of this piece, there is darning with dark blue over the tear and green cotton stitching in double rows across end before fringe. Alternating brown and white narrow warp stripes are turned into the fringe at each end due to the cut warps. Additional white wool is introduced into the white warps at fringe ends (this wool is 2 two-ply). The cut warp ends are twisted and knotted into monochrome fringes, alternating like the stripes in white and brown tassels.

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