Women's tunic (faja) with 'soyate
A faja with soyate . This is a Mixtec woman's soyate made in and around the village of San Agustín Tlacotepec in the Mixteca Alta, but bought by Bodil Christensen in 1958 in Pinotepa de Don Luis in the Mixtec coastal area. The soyate is made of palm leaf, tuni in Mixtec. The faja itself is made of hand-spun white cotton and red factory wool. Along the sides there are lines woven in red, green and …
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Type of item
- Object Type: belt
- Belt
Date
- 1958
Medium
- Material: palm tree
- Material: cotton
- palm tree
- cotton (fiber)
- Palm fibre
- Cotton
Type of item
- Object Type: belt
- Belt
Date
- 1958
Medium
- Material: palm tree
- Material: cotton
- palm tree
- cotton (fiber)
- Palm fibre
- Cotton
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1958
- 1958/1958
Provenance
- 1980-01-01
- Aankoop
Identifier
- RV-5075-43
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/803963
Format
- Technique: spinning
- spinning
- Spinning
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- green
- orange
- red
- wax
- ambergris
Year
- 1958
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z