Object class: Costume components / Collector: Miguel Hun / Function: 2.1 Daily Garb - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Faja, hombre, accession number 3-29972, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; one piece; warp ends cut; fringe at each end created by twisting cut warps (fringe is 7" long). 132 cm x 7.5 cm. Native name/meaning: faja, hombre/man's belt. Materials, techniques: Wool: 1 two-ply in brown and white (white very soiled and looks tan). Embroidery in cotton: 3 singles dark blue and 6 two-ply in green. Context of use: At either end of this piece, there is darning with dark blue over the tear and green cotton stitching in double rows across end before fringe. Alternating brown and white narrow warp stripes are turned into the fringe at each end due to the cut warps. Additional white wool is introduced into the white warps at fringe ends (this wool is 2 two-ply). The cut warp ends are twisted and knotted into monochrome fringes, alternating like the stripes in white and brown tassels.

Hearst Museum object titled Faja, hombre, accession number 3-29977, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; one piece; loose warps create 4" fringe, which are uncut resulting in loose warps winding back on themselves. 107 cm x 10 cm. Native name/meaning: faja hombre/man's sash. Materials, techniques: cotton: 2 singles black; 1 two-ply in light black, grey, blue, dark and light green, brown, peach, aqua. Context of use: Even multicolored warps stripes are approximately .5" wide. Light black color predominates in this 4" wide faja; red cotton yarn is doubled and looped through middle of piece at one end. Fringe created at each end by slipping sash off the first piece I ever acquired. Its from circa 1973-74. I was attracted by it because of its unusual combination of colors on a white background. I bought it from a woman from San Antonio Aquas Calientes in front of the Cathedral in Antigua. This faja not meant for traditional use, but rather for tourists. The threads are cotton and the colors I believe are synthetic. Kachikel hands definitely made it! (Hun).