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Huipil, large women's shirt, white cotton with a decorated top half showing horiztonal bands of black and white ikat, bands of multicolored geometric designs, floral embroidery at neck and in a vertical band on either side of shirt
Huipil, large women's shirt, white cotton with a decorated top half showing horiztonal bands of black and white ikat, bands of multicolored geometric designs, floral embroidery at neck and in a vertical band on either side of shirt
Object Number 2013.24.54
Display Title Huipil, large women's shirt, white cotton with a decorated top half showing horiztonal bands of black and white ikat, bands of multicolored geometric designs, floral embroidery at neck and in a vertical band on either side of shirt
Descriptions
Object Description Big huipil, three pieces joined by floral silk embroidered randas, floor loomed, white cotton, selvages cut and hemmed, lower part of garment is long and plain, upper part has black and white ikat cotton wefts and multicolored silk and cotton two faced supplementary weft brocading, geometric images, head hole cut out, embroidered with silk floral designs
Inventory Description Huipil, large women's shirt, white cotton with horiztonal bands of black and white ikat, multicolored cotton and silk two faced supplementry weft brocading of bands of multicolored geometric designs, silk floral embroidery at neck and in a vertical band on either side of shirt
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Quetzaltenango / <County> / Quetzaltenango
Materials Cotton , Dye , Silk
Dimensions Overall: 98 × 112 cm (38 9/16 × 44 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.54
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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