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Object Number 2013.24.203
Display Title Woman's belt
Descriptions
Object Description Woman's belt
Inventory Description Woman's belt, backstrap loomed, warps cut, create fringes on both ends, red, yellow, and purple vertical stripes, two faced multicolored cotton supplementary weft brocading bird and geometric images.
Classification
  • Belt
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Guatemala / <County> / San Juan Sacatepequez
Materials Cotton , Dye
Dimensions Overall: 254 × 20 × 0.1 cm (100 × 7 7/8 × 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.203; 165
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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