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Object Number
2013.24.84
Display Title
Huipil, women's shirt, two panels sewn together, no head hole, indigo cotton with multicolored geometric and anthropomorphic designs
Descriptions
Object Description
Huipil, two pieces, joined by hand sewing, backstrap loomed, selvages cut and hemmed, no head hole, multicolored cotton and silk single faced supplementary weft brocading, some human but mostly geometric images.
Inventory Description
Huipil, women's shirt, cotton, two panels sewn together, no head hole, indigo with red, green, white, pink and purple cotton and silk single faced supplementary weft brocading of geometric and some anthropomorphic designs
Classification
- Huipil
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
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Guatemala
/
Totonicapan
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<County>
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San Miguel Totonicapan
Materials
Cotton , Dye
Dimensions
Overall: 98 × 76 cm (38 9/16 × 29 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2013.24.84
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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