Skirt Length
Corte
42-35-359
From: Guatemala | San Pedro Sacatepequez | Department of San Marcos
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Corte |
| Object Number | 42-35-359 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | San Pedro Sacatepequez | Department of San Marcos |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Date Made | pre 1933 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Silk | Cotton |
| Description | Skirt fabric with silk red warps and yellow wefts. Yellow warp pin stripes and narrow blue and white ikat cross stripes. As per Sigrid Meier, "40 epi, single, Z twist, red cotton, yellow silk. Weft: 48 ppi, single, Z twist, white/blue jaspe cotton. Single, Z twist, yellow silk. Balanced plain weave. Woven on a treadle loom." |
| Length | 19 cm |
| Width | 19 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 286 - Other Number |
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