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Huipil, woman's shirt, white with red, pink, purple, yellow, and green geometric designs
Huipil, woman's shirt, white with red, pink, purple, yellow, and green geometric designs
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 / Guatemala / Guatemala / <County> / 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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