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Textile, huipil length
Object Number 986-5-20/26202
Display Title Textile, huipil length
Descriptions
Object Description Cloth, huipil length, 1 breadth; white ground with treadle loom brocade in black, yellow, red and purple, of geometric motifs and stylized animal forms (including birds); small amount of floats in yellow, purple, red; no warps, wefts black; no embroidery; all brocade done in two sections of the textile and nowhere else; two sections are repeated exactly, with motifs squashed together; stained; section of border cut off, threads coming loose
Inventory Description Woven cloth, white cotton, with black embroidered bird design.
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Woven
Department Ethnographic
Date 1930-1939 ca?
Culture
  • Highland Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Quetzaltenango / <County> / Quetzaltenango
Materials Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 312 x 50.2 x 0.2 cm (122 13/16 x 19 3/4 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 986-5-20/26202
Provenance
Collector Augustus Ledyard Smith (1930-1939 ca? - 1986)
Donor Augustus Ledyard Smith (1930-1939 ca? - 1986)

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