Belt
Faja
85-2-280
From: Guatemala | Department of Solola
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Faja |
| Object Number | 85-2-280 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cakchiquel |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Solola |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Rayon |
| Description | Woman's belt. Red cotton with horizontal brocaded bands, twisted fringes. Warp stripes in green, orange, yellow and jaspe. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 68 epi, two singles, Z twist, red, yellow, dark blue, orange and ikat cotton. Three ply, yellow, green, blue and purple rayon. Weft: 24 ppi, two singles Z twist, red cotton. Warp faced plain weave. Supplementary weft is two faced. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 418 cm |
| Width | 19.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985 |
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