Skirt
Refajo
85-2-335
From: Guatemala | San Pedro Sacatepequez | Department of San Marcos
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Refajo |
| Object Number | 85-2-335 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | San Pedro Sacatepequez | Department of San Marcos |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Skirt of one panel. Unseamed. Orange ground with yellow stripes and horizontal jaspeado stripes. Blue selvedge. Tag reads, "Usado para el trabajo la las mujeres de close humilde. Las otras usan los cortes familian enineltos pero de amarillo con trama verde -- hoy dia genera lizado en hujar del p---." As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 38 epi, single, Z twist, yellow, rose colored cotton. Two singles, Z twist, blue cotton. Weft: 16 ppi, single, Z twist, rose, green, yellow, indigo/white cotton. Balanced plain weave." |
| Length | 85 cm |
| Width | 400 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985 |
| Other Number | 335 - Other Number |
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