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Object Number
2013.24.91
Display Title
Huipil, women's shirt, white cotton, with multicolored cotton and silk geometrics, human, and animals figures
Descriptions
Object Description
Center piece of a three piece huipil, backstrap loomed, one end loom finished, other cut and hemmed, white cotton, white and red wefts alternating, head hole not cut out, multicolored silk and cotton single faced supplementary weft brocading, geometric, bird images
Inventory Description
Huipil, women's shirt, central panel of a three white cotton huipil, with single faced supplementary weft brocading of purple, pink, red, turquoise, and green cotton and silk geometrics, human, and animals figures
Classification
- Huipil
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
/
Guatemala
/
El Quiche
/
<County>
/
Nebaj
Materials
Cotton , Dye , Silk
Dimensions
Overall: 53 × 178 cm (20 7/8 × 70 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2013.24.91; 127
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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