Cinta

Museum number:
3-235
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
235 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
Cinta for woman’s hair. (Cotton basketweave. Red with yellow and green stripes, white one along edges. Corners sewn so that ends are pointed. 1 m 54 cm long, 5 cm wide).
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Aguacatán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Aguacatan, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Awakateko and Maya
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Hairbands (ornaments)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 153 centimeters and width 6.5 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archives in museum library. See also p.107 Schevill; see references below.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cinta, accession number 3-235, described as Cinta for woman’s hair. (Cotton basketweave. Red with yellow and green stripes, white one along edges. Corners sewn so that ends are pointed. 1 m 54 cm long, 5 cm wide).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cinta, accession number 3-235, described as Cinta for woman’s hair. (Cotton basketweave. Red with yellow and green stripes, white one along edges. Corners sewn so that ends are pointed. 1 m 54 cm long, 5 cm wide).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cinta, accession number 3-235, described as Cinta for woman’s hair. (Cotton basketweave. Red with yellow and green stripes, white one along edges. Corners sewn so that ends are pointed. 1 m 54 cm long, 5 cm wide).

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