Skirt Length
Corte
70-13-8
From: Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Coban
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 70-13-8 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kekchi |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Coban |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Navy blue plaid cotton jaspe. Green pin-stripe check; with jaspe strips forming larger plaid over green-pin-strip check base. Jaspe strips bound by varicolored Always worn pleated, not wrap around. Common also in Tactic and San Pedro Carcha. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 42 epi, single, Z twist, navy, green and white cotton. Two singles, Z twist, red, purple and white cotton. Single, Z twist, white/navy jaspe. Weft: 40 ppi, single, Z twist, navy, green, white/navy jaspe cotton. Supplementary weft is two singles, green and white cotton overshot. Woven on a floor loom." |
| Length | 90.5 cm |
| Width | 83 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase, 1970 |
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