ACW 13 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4798
Description:
Faja, Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala.
Donor:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection place:
Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Kaqchikel
Collector:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection date:
2005?
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Waistbands
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
April 8, 2016
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 183 centimeters and width 9 centimeters
Comment:
Woven by Bertina Lopez Cumez’ daughter, Melissa Michel Martin Lopez. Purchased from Melissa by ACW (Ann C Wilson) in Sebastopol, CA, ~ 2005. 2 tags on back of faja: (removed) —“ACW #13” —“Faja. Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala. Woven by Bertina Lopez Cumez’ daughter Melissa and purchased from Melissa in Sebastopol, CA. ??2005. Price = $30." Faja. Section of unwoven warp, with stabilizing wefts and warp loops, at one end. Warp loops at other end. Plain weave. Black warp with red warps at both sides. Dense multicolored singlefaced geometric supplementary weft patterning, predominantly blue & green, covering almost one half of length of faja.