Belt
Faja
69-23-17
From: Guatemala | Department of Sacatepequez | San Antonio Aguas Calientes
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Faja |
| Object Number | 69-23-17 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Sacatepequez | San Antonio Aguas Calientes |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Totonicapan type "stiff belt." Cotton with red border stripes and alternating indigo and white center warp. Warp faced weave. Brocaded in rainbow colors that sometimes define the motif and sometimes are random width stripes within warp patterned motif. Ends come to a point, single four strand braid fringe at each end. 26 motif bands of bush-vases, birds, animals and geometrics. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 100 epi, two ply, red, black and white cotton. Weft: 19 ppi, multistrand, red cotton. Supplementary weft is two faced. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 282 cm |
| Width | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase, 1969 |
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