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Object Number
2013.24.97
Display Title
Huipil, woman's shirt, short, white with red borders and dense pink and dark blue geometric designs around neck
Descriptions
Object Description
Older style huipil, very short, one piece, backstrap loomed, one end loomed finished, other cut and hemmed, white cotton with red cotton borders on sides, red and blue cotton two faced supplementary weft brocade, geometric images, cut out square neck, hand sewn finishing, center, front, back and shoulders densely brocaded, multicolored cotton geometric images and dots in other areas
Inventory Description
Huipil, woman's shirt, short, white with red cotton borders and dense supplementary weft brocading of pink, and dark blue geometrics around the neck and some pink, dark blue, yellow, green geometrics in other areas, neck is finished, sides are sewn together, very similar to Cobb 137
Classification
- Huipil
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
/
Guatemala
/
Escuintla
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<County>
/
Palin
Materials
Cotton , Dye
Dimensions
Overall: 33 × 61 cm (13 × 24 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2013.24.97
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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