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Object Number
986-5-20/26200
Display Title
Textile, huipil length
Descriptions
Object Description
Cloth, huipil length, 2 breadths; two pieces, joined; white ground; no warp or weft lines; elaborately brocaded cloth with free-standing, one-sided birds, geometrics and animals in red and purple; no embroidery; floats; in middle of cloth is band of patterns very intricate and worked; on near-edge parts of piece, brocade turns to geometric circles; on edge there is stripe of red-blue color; material is old and has yellowed; stained
Inventory Description
Woven cotton textile, white, embroidered with red and purple animals
Classification
- Raw Material
- Woven
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1930-1939 ca?
Culture
- Highland Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
/
Guatemala
/
San Marcos
/
<County>
/
San Pedro Sacatepequez
Materials
Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 114.6 x 102.7 x 0.3 cm (45 1/8 x 40 7/16 x 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
986-5-20/26200
Provenance
Collector
Augustus Ledyard Smith
(1930-1939 ca? - 1986)
Donor
Augustus Ledyard Smith
(1930-1939 ca? - 1986)
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