Faja

Museum number:

3-91

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21030000091

Alternate number:

91 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.47 and Acc.61

Object count:

1

Description:

Faja for woman’s waist or waistband; cotton; red, white, blue, yellow, and green; wool yarn brocading; warp end braided together; approximately 2 m 20 cm long, 7.5 cm wide

Donor:

Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

San Cristobal Totonicapan, Totonicapan, Guatemala

Verbatim coll. place:

Totonicapan, Guatemala

Culture or time period:

K'iche' and Maya

Collector:

Gustavus A. Eisen

Collection date:

1902

Materials:

Cotton (textile) and Wool (textile) (suppl weft)

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements

Accession date:

October 20, 1902

Department:

Cat. 3 - Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Area

Dimensions:

width 7.5 centimeters and length 220 centimeters

Comment:

See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below

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