Cinta
- Museum number:
- 3-71
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000071
- Alternate number:
- 71 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.47 and Acc.61
- Description:
- Child’s headband or cinta; twill and plain weaves; multicolored; silk; pom-pom with tassel on each end; approximately 66 cm long plus fringe, 1 cm wide
- Donor:
- Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- San Cristobal Totonicapan, Totonicapan, Guatemala
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Totonicapan, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- K'iche' and Maya
- Collector:
- Gustavus A. Eisen
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile) and Silk (floss)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Headbands (headgear)
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements and 2.3 Special Ornaments, Garb, and Finery Worn to Battle by Warrior (excluding status insignia)
- Accession date:
- October 20, 1902
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- width 1 centimeters and length 66 centimeters
- Comment:
- See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below.
- Loans:
- S1966-1967 #87: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Ruth Boyer (April 5, 1967–May 26, 1967)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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