Skirt Item Number: Sa252 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Skirt made of two rectangles of blue cotton with an embroidered, insertion stitched yellow, pink and white band (randa) running horizontally along the centre. The blue fabric is interrupted every so often with two white stripes running vertically. The ends of the fabric are joined together with a vertical French seam.
History Of Use
Tubular skirts are wrapped around the hips and worn with a belt or sash. The skirt material is commercially woven on a treadle loom. The randas (seam bands) are hand embroidered and often distinguishable between villages. Horizontally striped skirt cloth is called 'cortes sencillos'.
Cultural Context
worn by women
Item History
What
- Name
- Skirt
- Identification Number
- Sa252
- Type of Item
- skirt
- Material
- cotton fibre and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- woven, stitched and embroidered
- Overall
- height 98.5 cm, width 119.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Cakchiquel
- Previous Owner
- Inge Ruus
- Received from
- Inge Ruus (Seller) and Museum of Anthropology Donations Fund (Funding source)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Solola, Solola, Guatemala
When
- Creation Date
- before 1976
- Collection Date
- during 1976
- Ownership Date
- before August 5, 1977
- Acquisition Date
- on August 5, 1977
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 0404/0021