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Banda (Guatemalan Textile)

Native NameBanda (Guatemalan Textile)
Object Number:42-35-166
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Guatemalan
Pocomam
Provenience: Guatemala
Department of Guatemala
Mixco
Culture Area: Central American
Date Made: Pre 1933
Early Date: 1928
Late Date: 1933
Section:American
Materials:Cotton
Wool
Length: 310 cm
Width: 12 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942
Other Number:94 - Other Number

Description

Man's sash. White ground with stripes of red, yellow, green, blue and purple. Long fringe of twisted threads on ends.

As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 48 epi, multicolored cotton. Weft: 16 ppi, three singles, Z twist, white wool. Warp faced plain weave. Woven on a backstrap loom."

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