2023.37.29

Collection type

Object

Description

Hair ribbon woven with multicoloured acrylic yarns in a chequer-like pattern.

Long description

Long, narrow, warp-faced hair ribbon woven of multicoloured acrylic yarns in the warp and white cotton in the weft. The ribbon has two sets of warps and is double woven, creating a reversible chequer-like pattern of both warp and weft stripes. The colours are purple, blue, hot pink, red, orange and green. There is a very short fringe at each end.

Geographical reference

Guatemala

Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Guatemala

Cultural groups

Mam

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Krystyna Deuss

PRM source Krystyna Deuss

Date / Period

Date made: By 1999

Date collected

Purchased 1990s

Acquisition information

Donated: 19 June 2023

Materials and processes

Material Synthetic Textile, Material Synthetic Yarn, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Double Woven

Dimensions

Height x Width 3850 x 25 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 2023.37.29 Other numbers: C 65

Research and responses

Information supplied by the collector/donor Krystyna Deuss:

By 1992 the weavers from San Sebastián Huehuetenango who traditionally sold their red woollen hair ribbons in nearby communities (2023.37.27), were also selling ribbons in multicoloured acrylic yarns (2023.37.28, 2023.37.29) as well as Colotenango huipiles and skirts woven on their foot looms. Being able to buy these items appealed especially to younger women who were not as skilled at weaving as their mothers. On my penultimate visit to Colotenango on market day, Saturday 19th December 1998, the only men I saw wearing white traditional dress were the municipal officials.

See Related Documents File for more detail. [JMC 26/11/2024]

Search terms: Clothing Textile, Clothing, Ornament, Textile, Hair Ornament