Skirt

Museum number:
3-138
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Alternate number:
138 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
Woman’s skirt or nahua. (Background brown cotton basketweave with blue and white plaid. Different colored threads incorporated in places. Approximately 2m x 1 m 32 cm.) Remarks: "Used by Indians:
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Quetzaltenango, Quetzaltenango Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Quezaltenango, Quezaltenango, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
K'iche' and Maya
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile) (incl. ixcaco brown cotton)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 130 centimeters and length 200 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Skirt, accession number 3-138, described as Woman’s skirt or nahua. (Background brown cotton basketweave with blue and white plaid. Different colored threads incorporated in places. Approximately 2m x 1 m 32 cm.) Remarks: "Used by Indians:Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Skirt, accession number 3-138, described as Woman’s skirt or nahua. (Background brown cotton basketweave with blue and white plaid. Different colored threads incorporated in places. Approximately 2m x 1 m 32 cm.) Remarks: "Used by Indians:Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Skirt, accession number 3-138, described as Woman’s skirt or nahua. (Background brown cotton basketweave with blue and white plaid. Different colored threads incorporated in places. Approximately 2m x 1 m 32 cm.) Remarks: "Used by Indians:Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Skirt, accession number 3-138, described as Woman’s skirt or nahua. (Background brown cotton basketweave with blue and white plaid. Different colored threads incorporated in places. Approximately 2m x 1 m 32 cm.) Remarks: "Used by Indians:
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 3-138, described as Woman’s skirt or nahua. (Background brown cotton basketweave with blue and white plaid. Different colored threads incorporated in places. Approximately 2m x 1 m 32 cm.) Remarks: "Used by Indians:

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