Man's belt, with woven design (floral and geometric motifs) in buff and black; flat plaited tassels at both ends. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/4/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Man's belt, with woven design (floral and geometric motifs) in buff and black; flat plaited tassels at both ends. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/4/2005]
Geographical reference: Mexico
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Mexico; Nayarit State Tepic
Cultural groups: Huichol
Person: Field collector Elsie Colsell McDougall; PRM source Elsie Colsell McDougall; PRM source John Eric Sidney Thompson
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1946
Date collected: By 1946
Acquisition information: Donated: 1946
Materials and processes: Material Textile, Process Woven, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Length: max 2970 mm, Width: max 143 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1946.6.27
Associated publications: Described in detail on page 98 of The McDougall Collection of Indian textiles from Guatemala and Mexico (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Papers on Technology, 2), by Laura E. Start (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford). Also illustrated in a line draweing, as figure 41 on page 97. [JC 15 7 2013]

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