Sash

Museum number:
3-170
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
170 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Object count:
1
Description:
Woman’s waistband or faja. (Weft is possibly sisal or straw. Covered by cotton warp. Red, white, blues, yellow, green. Warp ends braided. 1m 43 cm long, 5.5 cm wide. Some designs.)
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Huehuetenango (city), Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Huehuetenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Mam and Maya
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sashes (costume accessories)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 141 centimeters and width 5.5 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archives in museum library. See also Schevill p. 130 ; references below.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Sash, accession number 3-170, described as Woman’s waistband or faja. (Weft is possibly sisal or straw. Covered by cotton warp. Red, white, blues, yellow, green. Warp ends braided. 1m 43 cm long, 5.5 cm wide. Some designs.)Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Sash, accession number 3-170, described as Woman’s waistband or faja. (Weft is possibly sisal or straw. Covered by cotton warp. Red, white, blues, yellow, green. Warp ends braided. 1m 43 cm long, 5.5 cm wide. Some designs.)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sash, accession number 3-170, described as Woman’s waistband or faja. (Weft is possibly sisal or straw. Covered by cotton warp. Red, white, blues, yellow, green. Warp ends braided. 1m 43 cm long, 5.5 cm wide. Some designs.)

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