Banda
- Museum number:
- 3-227
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000227
- Alternate number:
- 227 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.47 and Acc.61
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Man's waistband or banda (Cotton, red and white. Approximately 23 cm of twisted warp fringe, then 5 cm woven, plain weave. Major portion of a knotless netting technique. Total length approximately 2m 18 cm, one woven portion 10 cm wide, other 7.5 cm.)
- 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
- 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:
- Cat. 3 - Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Area
- Dimensions:
- width 9 centimeters and length 211 centimeters
- Comment:
- See Eisen archives in museum library. See also p.129 Schevill; see references below.
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