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:
- length 220 centimeters and width 7.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below
- Images:
- Legacy documentation: