Hair Band

Cinta

85-2-131

From: Guatemala | Totonicapan

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Cinta
Object Number 85-2-131
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Maya (Central American Culture) | Quiche
Provenience Guatemala | Totonicapan
Culture Area Central American
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Tightly woven hair band with ends in two, fringed, multicolored, oval balls tied together. The name, "Jesus Chen Alvarado," is woven in. Bought in Rabinal.

Length 276 cm
Width 3 cm
Credit Line Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985
Other Number 5 - Field No SF

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