Faja

Museum number:
3-220
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
220 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
Man’s waistband (Thin, red cotton cloth, edges hand hemmed. Fringe of multicolored commercial wool yarn, knotting never finished. 74 cm long with approximately 16 cm fringe on each end. 21.5 cm wide.)
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Huehuetenango (city), Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Huehuetenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Mam and Maya
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Waistbands
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 207 centimeters and width 15 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archives in museum library. See also p.128 Schevill; see references below.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Faja, accession number 3-220, described as Man’s waistband (Thin, red cotton cloth, edges hand hemmed. Fringe of multicolored commercial wool yarn, knotting never finished. 74 cm long with approximately 16 cm fringe on each end. 21.5 cm wide.)Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Faja, accession number 3-220, described as Man’s waistband (Thin, red cotton cloth, edges hand hemmed. Fringe of multicolored commercial wool yarn, knotting never finished. 74 cm long with approximately 16 cm fringe on each end. 21.5 cm wide.)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-220, described as Man’s waistband (Thin, red cotton cloth, edges hand hemmed. Fringe of multicolored commercial wool yarn, knotting never finished. 74 cm long with approximately 16 cm fringe on each end. 21.5 cm wide.)

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