Woman's woven sash belt. Part of woman's costume (with huipil blouse [.1], skirt [.2], and tzute cloth [.4]).

Collection type: Object
Description: Woman's woven sash belt. Part of woman's costume (with huipil blouse [.1], skirt [.2], and tzute cloth [.4]).
Long description: Woman's woven sash belt. Mainly red with stripes of white and dark blue. The threads are knotted at each of the ends as fringes. [CF 5/2/2003]
Geographical reference: Guatemala
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Guatemala; Sololá San Juan La Laguna
Cultural groups: Kaqchikel; Tzʼutujil
Person: Maker Weaving cooperative; Field collector Stuart (Ed) Carter; PRM source Stuart (Ed) Carter; PRM source Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1992
Date collected: 1992
Acquisition information: Purchased: 2001
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Textile Plant, Process Woven, Process Knotted
Dimensions: Width 165 mm, Length 1880 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2001.76.3.3 Other numbers: 2(b) L180
Research and responses: Information from: Krystyna Deuss, Indian Costumes from Guatemala, 1981, p.31; "Sashes are always woven on the hip-strap loom... usually they are wound round the waist several times with the loose end tucked in." [CF 2/4/2003]

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