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Huipil, girl's shirt, white with embroidered blue, pink, red circles and green band at edge
Huipil, girl's shirt, white with embroidered blue, pink, red circles and green band at edge
Object Number 2013.24.123
Display Title Huipil, girl's shirt, white with embroidered blue, pink, red circles and green band at edge
Descriptions
Object Description Child's huipil, back strap loomed, loom finished selvages, sides stitched together, neck hole is finished, white cotton with multicolored cotton supplementary weft brocading circle designs, bands of green weft on bottom.
Inventory Description Huipil, girl's shirt, white with embroidered bands of blue circles separated by lines of alternating red and purple circles, embroidered green band at edge, band of gauze weave on front at bottom, neck is cut and finished, sides are sewn together
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Chimaltenango / <County> / San Martin Jilotepeque
Materials Cotton , Dye
Dimensions Overall: 40 × 48 cm (15 3/4 × 18 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.123
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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