Belt

Museum number:
3-15797
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1886
Description:
Belt, cotton; edges striped red, green, yellow; center thick red yarn; warp face pattern includes repeat anthropomorphic design representing feather dancers; weft thin white cotton; long fringe on one end; length 2.23 meters, not including fringe, width 6.5cm.
Donor:
Joyce E. Murphy
Collection place:
Santo Tomás Jalieza, Oaxaca, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico, Chiapas
Culture or time period:
Zapotec
Collector:
Joyce E. Murphy
Collection date:
1935-1939
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1964
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 6.35 centimeters and length 245.11 centimeters
Comment:
Special needs: lightweight; rolled
Loans:
S1977-1978 #6: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Nelson H.H. Graburn (September 9, 1977–September 13, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 3-15797, described as Belt, cotton; edges striped red, green, yellow; center thick red yarn; warp face pattern includes repeat anthropomorphic design representing feather dancers; weft thin white cotton; long fringe on one end; length 2.23 meters, not including fringe, width 6.5cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 3-15797, described as Belt, cotton; edges striped red, green, yellow; center thick red yarn; warp face pattern includes repeat anthropomorphic design representing feather dancers; weft thin white cotton; long fringe on one end; length 2.23 meters, not including fringe, width 6.5cm.

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