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Huipil, large women's shirt, white cotton with a decorated top half of thick horiztonal bands of multicolored geometric designs, floral embroidery at neck and decorative randas connecting panels
Huipil, large women's shirt, white cotton with a decorated top half of thick horiztonal bands of multicolored geometric designs, floral embroidery at neck and decorative randas connecting panels
Object Number 2013.24.53
Display Title Huipil, large women's shirt, white cotton with a decorated top half of thick horiztonal bands of multicolored geometric designs, floral embroidery at neck and decorative randas connecting panels
Descriptions
Object Description Big huipil, three pieces joined by multicolored silk randas, floor loomed, white cotton, selvages cut and hemmed, lower part of garment is long and plain, upper part is brocaded, multicolored cotton and silk 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 thick horiztonal bands of multicolored cotton and silk two faced supplementry weft brocading of bands of multicolored geometric designs, silk floral embroidery at neck and mulitcolored silk randas attaching the three panels together
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: 103 × 112 cm (40 9/16 × 44 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.53
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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