Garment (delantal)
Guatemala, El Quiché, Santa Cruz del Quiché; K’iche’ Maya
Collected by Gustavus A. Eisen, 1902.
3–149
With an interest in everyday costume, Eisen purchased twenty-one women’s aprons. While some are cut and sewn, others, like this item, are single panels of cloth. Most were woven on a treadle-loom, an upright form of loom introduced by the Spanish, but a few were woven on the traditional backstrap loom. Similar items in the collection are labeled as shawls, towels, napkins, and bed coverings.
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