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Hair Band

Cinta

Native NameCinta
Object Number:42-35-57
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Guatemalan
Quiche
Provenience: Guatemala
Quezaltenango
Department of Quezaltenango
Culture Area: Central American
Date Made: pre 1933
Early Date: 1928
Late Date: 1933
Section:American
Materials:Cotton
Silk
Silver (uncertain)
Width: 4 cm
Outside Diameter:27 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942
Other Number:XXXI-B - Other Number

Description

Red cotton, weft of decorated ends is silk, cross stripes of varying widths in red, green, yellow, purple and blue, elaborate silk and silver metal tassels.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Five Thousand Years of Vanity (06 Jan 1944 - 28 Feb 1944) View Objects in Exhibition

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