Belt
Faja
85-2-65
Location: On Display in the Mexico and Central America Gallery
From: Guatemala | San Juan Sacatepequez | Department of Guatemala
Curatorial Section: American
Native Name | Faja |
Object Number | 85-2-65 |
Current Location | Mexico and Central America Gallery - On Display |
Culture | Cakchiquel |
Provenience | Guatemala | San Juan Sacatepequez | Department of Guatemala |
Culture Area | Central American |
Section | American |
Materials | Cotton | Silk |
Description | Woman's belt. Red cotton with yellow and purple stripes with silk brocade of birds and animals. Cotton fringe at ends. As per Sigrid Meier, "Weft: 12 ppi, multi strand, red cotton. Warp faced plain weave. Supplementary weft is single faced. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
Length | 224 cm |
Width | 25 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985 |
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