Enagua

Museum number:
3-219
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
219 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
Woman’s skirt or nagua (Cotton, plainweave, red. Stripes of yellow, green, and ikat stripes, twilled. 4 m 13 cm long, 82 cm wide.)
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)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 83 centimeters and length 414 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archives in museum library. See also p. 125 Schevill; see references below.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Enagua, accession number 3-219, described as Woman’s skirt or nagua (Cotton, plainweave, red. Stripes of yellow, green, and ikat stripes, twilled. 4 m 13 cm long, 82 cm wide.)Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Enagua, accession number 3-219, described as Woman’s skirt or nagua (Cotton, plainweave, red. Stripes of yellow, green, and ikat stripes, twilled. 4 m 13 cm long, 82 cm wide.)Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Enagua, accession number 3-219, described as Woman’s skirt or nagua (Cotton, plainweave, red. Stripes of yellow, green, and ikat stripes, twilled. 4 m 13 cm long, 82 cm wide.)Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Enagua, accession number 3-219, described as Woman’s skirt or nagua (Cotton, plainweave, red. Stripes of yellow, green, and ikat stripes, twilled. 4 m 13 cm long, 82 cm wide.)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Enagua, accession number 3-219, described as Woman’s skirt or nagua (Cotton, plainweave, red. Stripes of yellow, green, and ikat stripes, twilled. 4 m 13 cm long, 82 cm wide.)

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