Trousers
Pantalon
42-35-301
From: Guatemala | San Pedro La Laguna | Department of Solola
Curatorial Section: American
Native Name | Pantalon |
Object Number | 42-35-301 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tzutujil |
Provenience | Guatemala | San Pedro La Laguna | Department of Solola |
Culture Area | Central American |
Date Made | pre 1933 |
Section | American |
Materials | Cotton |
Description | White with narrow blue and white ikat stripe and fine weft cross stripe, embroidered in blue orange and red cotton in zigzags ans combined triangles, worn rolled at waist to make them knee length. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 64 epi, 2 singles, Z twist, white, green, blue/white ikat cotton. Weft: 30 ppi, 2 singles, Z twist, white and blue cotton. Warp faced plain weave. Brocading single faced. Made on a backstrap loom." |
Length | 88 cm |
Width | 34 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
Other Number | 228 - Other Number |
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