Pants (calzón)

Unknown artist

A linen weave calzón, men's pants woven from white cotton with decorated pipe ends. This is a Tacuate men's pants from Santa Maria Zacatepec, Putla, which belongs to 5946-201. This suit is typical of the Tacuate of Zacatepec and is actually not made or worn anywhere else in the region. The calzón was bought by Irmgard Johnson Weitlaner around 1952. The trousers are woven in linen with chain effect and sewn together with zigzag 'randa' work. At the top of the calzón there is a cord to hold the pants up. The trouser legs are decorated at the bottom with multicoloured miniature animals and hemmed with multicoloured stitching. The animals that appear are birds, insects, cats and the two-headed eagle. The trousers, when worn, are rolled up and pulled up so that they fall above the knee, and are thus worn in combination with a tunic-like shirt (5946-201)‖ Motifs [for illustrations]: Zo-B-A (bird);Zo-B-B (bird);Zo-B-C (bird);Zo-B-D-1 (bird);Zo-B-D-2 (bird);Zo-B-Do-1 (two-headed eagle);Zo-B-Do-2 (double-headed eagle);Zo-B-Gu-3 (seagull);Zo-B-He-1 (ibis);Zo-B-He-2 (ibis);Zo-I-A-13 (insect);Zo-M-B (cat);Zo-M-C (cat)