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Huipil, women's shirt, red with white, yellow, black, and pink geometric and zoomorphic designs
Huipil, women's shirt, red with white, yellow, black, and pink geometric and zoomorphic designs
Object Number 2013.24.19
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, red with white, yellow, black, and pink geometric and zoomorphic designs
Descriptions
Object Description Huipil, three pieces, handsewn together, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, head hole not cut out, multicolored cotton and wool two faced supplementary weft brocading, geometric and animal images.
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, red cotton with cotton and wool two faced supplementary weft brocading in white, yellow, black, and pink geometric and zoomorphic designs, three panels sewn together, head hole not cut, sides not sewn
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Sacatepequez / <County> / Santa Maria de Jesus
Materials Dye , Cotton , Wool
Dimensions Overall: 68 × 90 cm (26 3/4 × 35 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.19; 28
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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