Sash
Banda (Guatemalan Textile)
42-35-406
From: Guatemala | Department of Amatitlan | Palin
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Banda (Guatemalan Textile) |
| Object Number | 42-35-406 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Guatemalan | Pipil |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Amatitlan | Palin |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk |
| Technique | Embroidered |
| Description | Sash for a small boy. Red cotton with three, dark blue pin stripes. Brocaded in three horizontal bands of chevrons in rose, green, orange, purple, blue and white silk. Red cotton thread- synthetic dye (Robert Carlsen 1984). As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 50 epi, two singles, Z twist, red cotton. Four singles, Z twist, blue cotton. Weft: 16 ppi, four singles, Z twist, red cotton. Warp faced plain weave. Supplementary weft is singled faced. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 192 cm |
| Width | 13.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | M-2 - Other Number |
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