Tela de cofradía

Museum number:
3-29751
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
WT 242 (previous number)
Accession number:
Acc.4405
Description:
Tela de Cofradía- Ceremonial cloth: Backstrap-loomed, warp predominant plain weave, two-faced suppl. weft brocading. One piece; loom-finished selvedges.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
Quetzaltenango Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Quezaltenango, Quezaltenango
Culture or time period:
K'iche'
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
1930s
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 178 centimeters and length 19.5 centimeters
Comment:
MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES: Two singles white cotton warp. Two singles weft in background. Supplementary weft in 2, 4, singles of lavender cotton, sedalina single ply beige. At either end incorporated between geometric supplementary weft designs are two 1 1/2 inch bands of open weave where double sets of two single warps have been twisted around each other , leaving openings in the weave. Edges of this piece appear loos and uneven. No fringes that are usually found on telas de cofradías. Native name and meaning: Tela de Cofradía- Ceremonial cloth. Banda de Santo?? CONTEXT OF USE: Dating relates to use of lavender yarn, hilo morado de Nicoya. Open gauze weave is also used in Xenacoj and San Pedro Sacatepequex Guatemala for a baby's gorra (or hat) that comes down over the eyes (Arriola de Geng). CONSERVATION: Fair. One end detached; several tears along edges; some stains, few repairs (Wendy Berkelman).
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Tela de cofradía, accession number 3-29751, described as Tela de Cofradía- Ceremonial cloth: Backstrap-loomed, warp predominant plain weave, two-faced suppl. weft brocading. One piece; loom-finished selvedges.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Tela de cofradía, accession number 3-29751, described as Tela de Cofradía- Ceremonial cloth: Backstrap-loomed, warp predominant plain weave, two-faced suppl. weft brocading. One piece; loom-finished selvedges.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tela de cofradía, accession number 3-29751, described as Tela de Cofradía- Ceremonial cloth: Backstrap-loomed, warp predominant plain weave, two-faced suppl. weft brocading. One piece; loom-finished selvedges.

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