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Object Number
2013.24.82
Display Title
Belt, man's, indigo with red stripes and areas of heavy design at both ends with orange and yellow geometric shapes and double headed eagles
Descriptions
Object Description
Man's belt, one piece, back strap loomed, selvages loom finished, indigo dyed cotton with narrow red cotton vertical stripes, multicolored silk two faced supplementary weft brocading areas on both ends of belt, geometric and double-headed eagle designs
Inventory Description
Belt, man's, indigo cotton with red stripes, rectangular areas of heavy orange and yellow silk two faced supplementary weft brocading of geometric shapes and double headed eagles
Classification
- Belt
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
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Guatemala
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Solola
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<County>
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Nahuala
Materials
Dye , Cotton , Silk , Indigo dye
Dimensions
Overall: 26 × 280 cm (10 1/4 × 110 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2013.24.82; 40
Credit Line
Gift of Mary Dodge Cobb in memory of Bertha Sanford (Wiener) Dodge and
Carroll William Dodge, who together collected these Guatemalan textiles
Provenance
Collector
Bertha Sanford Dodge
Collector
Carroll William Dodge
Donor
Donated by
Mary Dodge Cobb
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