Skirt
Refajo
85-2-120
From: Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Tucuru
Curatorial Section: American
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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