Headdress

Museum number:
3-25490
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2548
Description:
Headdress; narrow cotton woven band; each end has added fringe in possible rayon and decorated portion of animals and geometric varicolored deisngs; center red. Total length; 14 meter 43 cm; width 3.5 cm. Red portion; 12 meters 56 cm. Decorated portion; 77 cm each end. Native name: Cinta para cebeza. Materials, techinques: Band bottom (hilo); tapestry weave; splits between color changes. Context of use: Worn by women. Wrapped "halo" fashion around the head for carrying things on the head. Made by women.
Donor:
Julius Stephen Kassovic and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Santiago Atitlán, Sololá, Guatemala
Collector:
Julius Stephen Kassovic
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1969
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Loans:
S1972-1973 #21: U.C. San Diego Art Gallery (October 20, 1972–December 27, 1972)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Headdress, accession number 3-25490, described as Headdress; narrow cotton woven band; each end has added fringe in possible rayon and decorated portion of animals and geometric varicolored deisngs; center red. Total length; 14 meter 43 cm; width 3.5 cm. Red portion; 12 meters 56 cm. Decorated portion; 77 cm each end. Native name: Cinta para cebeza. Materials, techinques: Band bottom (hilo); tapestry weave; splits between color changes. Context of use: Worn by women. Wrapped "halo" fashion around the head for carrying things on the head. Made by women.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Headdress, accession number 3-25490, described as Headdress; narrow cotton woven band; each end has added fringe in possible rayon and decorated portion of animals and geometric varicolored deisngs; center red. Total length; 14 meter 43 cm; width 3.5 cm. Red portion; 12 meters 56 cm. Decorated portion; 77 cm each end. Native name: Cinta para cebeza. Materials, techinques: Band bottom (hilo); tapestry weave; splits between color changes. Context of use: Worn by women. Wrapped "halo" fashion around the head for carrying things on the head. Made by women.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Headdress, accession number 3-25490, described as Headdress; narrow cotton woven band; each end has added fringe in possible rayon and decorated portion of animals and geometric varicolored deisngs; center red. Total length; 14 meter 43 cm; width 3.5 cm. Red portion; 12 meters 56 cm. Decorated portion; 77 cm each end. Native name: Cinta para cebeza. Materials, techinques: Band bottom (hilo); tapestry weave; splits between color changes. Context of use: Worn by women. Wrapped "halo" fashion around the head for carrying things on the head. Made by women.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 3-25490, described as Headdress; narrow cotton woven band; each end has added fringe in possible rayon and decorated portion of animals and geometric varicolored deisngs; center red. Total length; 14 meter 43 cm; width 3.5 cm. Red portion; 12 meters 56 cm. Decorated portion; 77 cm each end. Native name: Cinta para cebeza. Materials, techinques: Band bottom (hilo); tapestry weave; splits between color changes. Context of use: Worn by women. Wrapped "halo" fashion around the head for carrying things on the head. Made by women.

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