Skirt

Refajo

85-2-120

From: Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Tucuru

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Refajo
Object Number 85-2-120
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Pocomchi
Provenience Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Tucuru
Culture Area Central American
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Cotton skirt with blue ground with white stripes both vertical and horizontal. Joined by horizontal and vertical randas.

As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 36 epi, two singles, Z twist, indigo cotton. One single, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 24 ppi, multiple, Z twist, indigo cotton. Single, Z twist, white cotton. Warp predominantly plain weave. Woven on a floor loom."

Length 122 cm
Width 141 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 120 - Other Number

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