Faja

Museum number:
3-32193
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Alternate number:
ACW Guatemala addition #4.1 (previous number, Margot Schevill checklist number)
Accession number:
Acc.4804
Description:
Faja, salmon colored, cotton belt. Woven on a back-strap loom with multi colored single faced supplementary brocade weaving, sedalina. Fringe at one end is warp loops. At the other end the loops have been cut.
Donor:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection place:
Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Santa Catarina Palopo
Culture or time period:
Kaqchikel
Collector:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection date:
2004
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Waistbands
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
March 6, 2017
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Faja, accession number 3-32193, described as Faja, salmon colored, cotton belt. Woven on a back-strap loom with multi colored single faced supplementary brocade weaving, sedalina. Fringe at one end is warp loops. At the other end the loops have been cut.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Faja, accession number 3-32193, described as Faja, salmon colored, cotton belt. Woven on a back-strap loom with multi colored single faced supplementary brocade weaving, sedalina. Fringe at one end is warp loops. At the other end the loops have been cut.

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