Skirt
Refajo
85-2-219
From: Guatemala | San Gaspar Ixchil | Department of Huehuetenango
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Refajo |
| Object Number | 85-2-219 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | San Gaspar Ixchil | Department of Huehuetenango |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Skirt made of red cotton with yellow and blue stripes. Sewn in circle. Separate piece added at bottom as flounce. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 40 epi, single, Z twist, red cotton with two singles, Z twist, blue cotton in selvedge. Weft: 40 ppi, single, Z twist, red cotton. Single, indigo/white jaspe. Two ply yellow cotton. Balanced plain weave. Woven on a treadle loom." |
| Length | 105 cm |
| Width | 147 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985 |
| Other Number | 219 - Other Number |
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