Pita or saigue
- Museum number:
- 3-266
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000266
- Alternate number:
- 266 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.47 and Acc.61
- Description:
- Pita or saigue. (Agave thread.) Used for making firecrackers or ?.
- Donor:
- Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- San Juan Cotzal, Quiché, Guatemala
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Coztal, Guatemala (Huehuetenango)
- Culture or time period:
- Maya
- Collector:
- Gustavus A. Eisen
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Taxon:
- Agave deserti
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- October 20, 1902
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Legacy documentation:
-