Gavacha

Museum number:
3-205
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
205 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
Child’s garment or gavacha. (Red cotton, plain weave with yellow ikat stripes. Garment seamed at bodice. One patch pocket. Applique on bodice and binding of blue cotton. Sleeveless. Ties around neck only. Machine sewn. 57 cm long 65 cm across hem.)
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Huehuetenango (city), Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Huehuetenango, Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Mam and Maya
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb and 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 58.8 centimeters and width 35 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archives in museum library. See also Schevill p. 119; references below
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Gavacha, accession number 3-205, described as Child’s garment or gavacha. (Red cotton, plain weave with yellow ikat stripes. Garment seamed at bodice. One patch pocket. Applique on bodice and binding of blue cotton. Sleeveless. Ties around neck only. Machine sewn. 57 cm long 65 cm across hem.)Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Gavacha, accession number 3-205, described as Child’s garment or gavacha. (Red cotton, plain weave with yellow ikat stripes. Garment seamed at bodice. One patch pocket. Applique on bodice and binding of blue cotton. Sleeveless. Ties around neck only. Machine sewn. 57 cm long 65 cm across hem.)Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Gavacha, accession number 3-205, described as Child’s garment or gavacha. (Red cotton, plain weave with yellow ikat stripes. Garment seamed at bodice. One patch pocket. Applique on bodice and binding of blue cotton. Sleeveless. Ties around neck only. Machine sewn. 57 cm long 65 cm across hem.)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Gavacha, accession number 3-205, described as Child’s garment or gavacha. (Red cotton, plain weave with yellow ikat stripes. Garment seamed at bodice. One patch pocket. Applique on bodice and binding of blue cotton. Sleeveless. Ties around neck only. Machine sewn. 57 cm long 65 cm across hem.)

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