Unfinished belt

Museum number:

3-27985a-c

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm210327985a@2dc

Alternate number:

1818 (previous number (Design Dept.)) and LMO 208a (previous number (Lila M. O'Neale), this is b )

Accession number:

Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.03

Description:

Unfinished belt and tool for knotting it. Belt made in the “Solomon’s knot” technique a) tool, bone 2 1/4 " b) cotton unfinished belt blue and white cotton. 1 x40" c) yarn heddles on sticks turquoise blue 5 7/8" See Textiles of Highland Guatemala LMO Fig 75f

Donor:

Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Lila Morris O'Neale

Collection place:

Pariahuanca, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Verbatim coll. place:

Guatemala Pariahuanca, near Quetzaltenango

Collector:

Lila Morris O'Neale

Collection date:

1936

Materials:

Bone (material) and Cotton (textile)

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.5 Household and 2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes

Accession date:

1974

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area

Dimensions:

a)— length 6 centimeters, b)— length 226 centimeters, b)— width 3 centimeters, and a)— width 1 centimeters

Comment:

UCDD ledger #1818 says Guatemala? Pariahuanca near Quetzaltenango . Subsequent item # 1822 says Guatemala? Peru? Pariahuanca. Cannot determine where this item originated - The LMO #208a would fall in line with objects from Guatemala. Fig 75 f matches 3-27985a from Quezaltenango

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