Belt (Faja)

Textiles

1900/50

Maya
Totonicapán, Guatemala

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Maya
Title: Belt (Faja)
Place: Totonicapán (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1901–1950
Medium: Cotton and wool, stripes of plain weave and plain weave derived float weave with brocading wefts; plaited warp fringe
Dimensions: 243.8 × 8.6 cm (96 × 3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number: 1969.779

Art Institute of Chicago, Folk Art Textiles from the Permanent Collection, Nov. 8, 1980-Mar. 1, 1981.

Hazel Crow Ewell (also Mrs. James C. Ewell, 1888-1972), Ringwood, IL, by Oct. 31, 1969 [incoming receipt RX7224, Oct. 31, 1969; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.

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