Altapec Pue. or Santa Ana (Pue. or Hdo.) bo't Necaxa, Pue.
Production place:
Jaltepec, Puebla, Mexico
Collector:
George M. Foster
Collection date:
March 17, 1946
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 19, 2015
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Comment:
donor stapled note: "Altapec Pue. or Santa Ana (Pue. or Hdo.) bo't Necaxa, Pue. 3/17/46 town Mexicano" George McClelland Foster Papers, 1934-2005 (Bancroft Library BANC MSS 2007/103) Travel Itineraries March 17, 1946 (Nueva Necaxa, Puebla and Acaxochitlán, Hidalgo. These towns are about a 50 minute car ride apart and close to Huachinango. He was in Huachinango on the 17th) [(March 17) Lv. San José Purua via Pachuca for Huachinango and volador “dance”, then to Papantla and horses to Tajín. Then Nautla and Teziutlán, and Veracruz.] JS 03/21/16