Skirt

Museum number:
3-4831
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1942X
Description:
Red, white, black and blue for semi-dress wear refajo skirt made by an Aztec woman. "Refajo" skirt woven by a Mexicana (Aztec) woman on a girdle-back loom, in the Mexicano-speaking town Mecayapan. This is an average specimen of a quality usually worn for everyday work around the home. For field work an older, less well made garment would be substituted. The Refajo is the most typical loom work of all of the Indians, Aztec and Popoluca alike, of the Coatzacoalcos area of Southern Veracruz.
Donor:
George M. Foster
Collection place:
Mecayapan, Veracruz, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Veracruz; Mecayapan near Soteapan
Culture or time period:
Aztec (1300–1521 AD)
Collector:
George M. Foster
Collection date:
April 1941
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
October 4, 1942
Context of use:
This is an average specimen of a quality usually worn for everyday work around the home. For field work an older, less well made garment would be substituted. The Refajo is the most typical loom work of all of the Indians, Aztec and Popoluca alike, of the Coatzacoalcos area of Southern Veracruz.
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 204 centimeters and length 96 centimeters
Comment:
L-3-6
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 3-4831, described as Red, white, black and blue for semi-dress wear refajo skirt made by an Aztec woman. "Refajo" skirt woven by a Mexicana (Aztec) woman on a girdle-back loom, in the Mexicano-speaking town Mecayapan. This is an average specimen of a quality usually worn for everyday work around the home. For field work an older, less well made garment would be substituted. The Refajo is the most typical loom work of all of the Indians, Aztec and Popoluca alike, of the Coatzacoalcos area of Southern Veracruz.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 3-4831, described as Red, white, black and blue for semi-dress wear refajo skirt made by an Aztec woman. "Refajo" skirt woven by a Mexicana (Aztec) woman on a girdle-back loom, in the Mexicano-speaking town Mecayapan. This is an average specimen of a quality usually worn for everyday work around the home. For field work an older, less well made garment would be substituted. The Refajo is the most typical loom work of all of the Indians, Aztec and Popoluca alike, of the Coatzacoalcos area of Southern Veracruz.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 3-4831, described as Red, white, black and blue for semi-dress wear refajo skirt made by an Aztec woman. "Refajo" skirt woven by a Mexicana (Aztec) woman on a girdle-back loom, in the Mexicano-speaking town Mecayapan. This is an average specimen of a quality usually worn for everyday work around the home. For field work an older, less well made garment would be substituted. The Refajo is the most typical loom work of all of the Indians, Aztec and Popoluca alike, of the Coatzacoalcos area of Southern Veracruz.

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