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Object Number
2013.24.2
Display Title
Huipil, woman's shirt, white with red, pink, purple, yellow, and green geometric designs
Descriptions
Object Description
Wedding huipil, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, no head hole, white cotton, red, purple, pink, yellow, and green single and two faced supplementary weft brocading, animal and geometric images. A new textile.
Inventory Description
Huipil, woman's shirt, white with multicolored singled-faced supplementary weft brocading of geometric designs in red, purple, pink, yellow, and green, the head hole is uncut and the sides are unstitched, it was originally two pieces that are attached with randa
Classification
- Huipil
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
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Guatemala
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Guatemala
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<County>
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San Pedro Sacatepequez
Materials
Cotton , Dye
Dimensions
Overall: 120 × 120 cm (47 1/4 × 47 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2013.24.2
Credit Line
Gift of Mary Dodge Cobb in memory of Bertha Sanford (Wiener) Dodge and
Carroll William Dodge, who together collected these Guatemalan textiles
Provenance
Collector
Bertha Sanford Dodge
Collector
Carroll William Dodge
Donor
Donated by
Mary Dodge Cobb
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