Headband

Museum number:

3-90

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

90 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.47 and Acc.61

Object count:

1

Description:

Woman’s headband or cinta; twilled plain weave; wool and cotton; red with multicolored stripes and designs; approximately 1 m 92 cm long, 3 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 Silk (floss)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Headbands (headgear)

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements and 2.3 Special Ornaments, Garb, and Finery Worn to Battle by Warrior (excluding status insignia)

Accession date:

October 20, 1902

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area

Dimensions:

width 3 centimeters and length 192 centimeters

Comment:

See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below.

Loans:

S1966-1967 #87: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Ruth Boyer (April 5, 1967–May 26, 1967)

Images:

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