Pants Item Number: Sa156 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Pants (boy's) with red vertical stripes and pink horizontal stripes forming an open plaid on a white ground. Brocaded multicoloured horizontal bands of squares, chevrons and strings of human figures holding hands, alternate between the red crosswise stripes. The pant legs are slightly different lengths and are fringed at the cuffs.
History Of Use
Characteristic Santa Catarina Palopo pants are identical to those worn by adult males. Motives on adults' and children's garments are in the same scale. For economic reasons this traditional type of pant is being replaced by commercially made 'store-bought' pants.
Cultural Context
worn by male children
Narrative
This object forms part of the Inge Ruus Collection of Guatemalan Textiles in the Museum of Anthropology. The Inge Ruus Collection of Guatemalan Textiles was collected on behalf of the Museum of Anthropology by Inge Ruus, Curatorial Assistant in the Museum from 1974 to 1978. Some items were purchased by the Museum and others were donated by Inge Ruus. Inge Ruus collected these materials while attending courses on Guatemalan textiles in Guatemala during the summers of 1976 and 1977, taught by Anne Lambert, instructor on textiles at the University of Alberta.
Specific Techniques
The pants are made from two even breadths woven by women on a back strap loom. Brocade is a single faced discontinuous supplementary weft on a plain weave ground with paired warps and wefts. The 2 breadths are hand basted along inseam and crotch (without gusset). Seams, waist and cuffs are selvage edges.
Item History
- Made in Santa Catarina Palopo, Solola, Guatemala before 1976
- Owned by Inge Ruus before July 1976
- Received from Inge Ruus (Seller) and Museum of Anthropology Donations Fund (Funding source) during July 1976
What
- Name
- Pants
- Identification Number
- Sa156
- Type of Item
- pant
- Material
- cotton fibre, acrylic fibre and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- woven and brocaded
- Overall
- height 65.0 cm, width 37.0 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
- Santa Catarina Palopo, Solola, Guatemala
When
- Creation Date
- before 1976
- Ownership Date
- before July 1976
- Acquisition Date
- during July 1976
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 0318/0011 c