Faja

Museum number:
3-198
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Alternate number:
198 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
Faja or woman’s waistband (a vegetal fiber weft covered by cotton warp. Stripes of red, brown, blues, yellow, and white. Warp ends braided together. 1m 30 cm long.)
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) (warp)
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 128 centimeters and width 6 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archives in museum library. See also Schevill p. ; references below
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Faja, accession number 3-198, described as Faja or woman’s waistband (a vegetal fiber weft covered by cotton warp. Stripes of red, brown, blues, yellow, and white. Warp ends braided together. 1m 30 cm long.)Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Faja, accession number 3-198, described as Faja or woman’s waistband (a vegetal fiber weft covered by cotton warp. Stripes of red, brown, blues, yellow, and white. Warp ends braided together. 1m 30 cm long.)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Faja, accession number 3-198, described as Faja or woman’s waistband (a vegetal fiber weft covered by cotton warp. Stripes of red, brown, blues, yellow, and white. Warp ends braided together. 1m 30 cm long.)

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