Belt

Banda (Guatemalan Textile)

79-5-6

From: Guatemala

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 79-5-6
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Guatemala
Culture Area Central American
Section American
Materials Textile
Description

Belt woven with blue, green, black, and white cotton on one half. Other half is green, black, white, red, blue, yellow, and orange. Designs are geometrics, animals, trees, hands and anthropomorphic figures. Design units are separated from one another by bands of white and black. Braid of fringe at each end of belt. Ca. 1960-70.

Length 227 cm
Width 5 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase, 1979

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