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Object Number
2013.24.117
Display Title
Huipil, women's shirt, half, indigo cotton, green, white and peach geometric and anthropomorphic designs
Descriptions
Object Description
Woman's tzut, one piece, back strap loomed, loom finished selvages, indigo with unusual green, multicolored cotton two faced supplementary weft brocading, human, geometric images.
Inventory Description
Huipil, women's shirt, half, indigo cotton with two faced supplementary weft brocading in green, white and peach cotton of geometric and anthropomorphic designs, finished as a table runner, some areas of wax on front
Classification
- Huipil
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
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Guatemala
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Quetzaltenango
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<County>
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Quetzaltenango
Materials
Cotton , Dye
Dimensions
Overall: 50 × 88 cm (19 11/16 × 34 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2013.24.117
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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