Skirt

Museum number:

3-51

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Alternate number:

51 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.47 and Acc.61

Description:

Woman’s skirt (nahua); cotton; plain and basket weaves; dark multicolored stripes, some with ikat desgins; approximately 90 cm wide, 4 m 60 cm long; For the color red the fiber is cotton and the dye result is Madder

Donor:

Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Quetzaltenango, Quetzaltenango Department, Guatemala

Verbatim coll. place:

Quezaltenango, Guatemala

Culture or time period:

K'iche' and Maya

Collector:

Gustavus A. Eisen

Collection date:

1902

Materials:

Cotton (textile)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Skirts (garments)

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements

Accession date:

October 20, 1902

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area

Dimensions:

length 460 centimeters and width 90 cubicCentimeters

Comment:

Cat card refers to "nahua" which is not a correct word for a skirt. It refers to the Aztec people. Schevill 1993 correctly uses the word "enagua" See Eisen archive in museum library. see references below suggesting this is yardage and not a skirt

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