Headband

Museum number:
3-29971
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030029971
Accession number:
Acc.4518
Description:
Handband-loomed, weft-faced plain and tapestry weaves; one piece; warps cut; one 23" tassel at each end. 99 cm x 3 cm. Native name/meaning: Cinta/headband. Materials, techniques: Cotton: singles in white; Artisela (artificial silk): singles in black, yellow, purple, white, blue, pink, gold, grey, maroon, peach. Context of use: Alternating bands of geometric designs including rabbits, birds, "senoritas," zigzags, stylized florals, chevrons and horizontal stripes are repeated. Eccentric weft technique creates the rounded figures (Schevill:127). Warps have been cut and brought through a hollow corn cobb that is covered with cut tufts of artisela. Sisal warps of fringe are wrapped with artisela in a series of "figure 8s" with a cluster of silk at center; these are attached to braids of silk at the fringe ends.
Donor:
Miguel Hun
Collection place:
Totonicapán, Totonicapán Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Totonicapan, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
K'iche'
Collector:
Miguel Hun
Collection date:
1970s-1980s
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headbands (headgear)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Headband, accession number 3-29971, described as Handband-loomed, weft-faced plain and tapestry weaves; one piece; warps cut; one 23" tassel at each end. 99 cm x 3 cm. Native name/meaning: Cinta/headband. Materials, techniques: Cotton: singles in white; Artisela (artificial silk): singles in black, yellow, purple, white, blue, pink, gold, grey, maroon, peach. Context of use: Alternating bands of geometric designs including rabbits, birds, "senoritas," zigzags, stylized florals, chevrons and horizontal stripes are repeated. Eccentric weft technique creates the rounded figures (Schevill:127). Warps have been cut and brought through a hollow corn cobb that is covered with cut tufts of artisela. Sisal warps of fringe are wrapped with artisela in a series of "figure 8s" with a cluster of silk at center; these are attached to braids of silk at the fringe ends.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headband, accession number 3-29971, described as Handband-loomed, weft-faced plain and tapestry weaves; one piece; warps cut; one 23" tassel at each end. 99 cm x 3 cm. Native name/meaning: Cinta/headband. Materials, techniques: Cotton: singles in white; Artisela (artificial silk): singles in black, yellow, purple, white, blue, pink, gold, grey, maroon, peach. Context of use: Alternating bands of geometric designs including rabbits, birds, "senoritas," zigzags, stylized florals, chevrons and horizontal stripes are repeated. Eccentric weft technique creates the rounded figures (Schevill:127). Warps have been cut and brought through a hollow corn cobb that is covered with cut tufts of artisela. Sisal warps of fringe are wrapped with artisela in a series of "figure 8s" with a cluster of silk at center; these are attached to braids of silk at the fringe ends.

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