Belt

Museum number:
3-28109
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1345 (previous number (Design Dept.)) and LMO 189 (previous number (Lila M. O'Neale), LMO cat #)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.03
Description:
Belt. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, brocaded, fringed. Blue ground, varicolored designs. Floral, geometric motives. See Fig. 123a, Textiles of Highland Guatemala. 132 inches x 15 inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection place:
Concepcion Chiquirichapa, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala, Concepcion Chiquirichapa
Culture or time period:
Mayan
Collector:
Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection date:
1936
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk (brocade, fringe, silk/cott)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 34 centimeters and length 320 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 3-28109, described as Belt. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, brocaded, fringed. Blue ground, varicolored designs. Floral, geometric motives. See Fig. 123a, Textiles of Highland Guatemala. 132 inches x 15 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 3-28109, described as Belt. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, brocaded, fringed. Blue ground, varicolored designs. Floral, geometric motives. See Fig. 123a, Textiles of Highland Guatemala. 132 inches x 15 inches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 3-28109, described as Belt. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, brocaded, fringed. Blue ground, varicolored designs. Floral, geometric motives. See Fig. 123a, Textiles of Highland Guatemala. 132 inches x 15 inches.

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