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Huipil, women's shirt, three panels, head hole uncut, dark blue with dense geometric designs and trees and birds
Huipil, women's shirt, three panels, head hole uncut, dark blue with dense geometric designs and trees and birds
Object Number 2013.24.89
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, three panels, head hole uncut, dark blue with dense geometric designs and trees and birds
Descriptions
Object Description Huipil, three pieces, no head hole, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, dark blue (indigo?) cotton with coral multicolored cotton and silk single and two faced supplementary weft brocading, zigzag in center panel, other geometric and floral images
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, three panels sewn together, head hole uncut, sides sewn up except for arm holes, dark blue cotton with cotton and silk supplementary weft brocading in coral, pink, purple, and blue, dense zigzag and geometric designs on center panel and geometric designs with trees and birds on the side panels
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Tamahu
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Tucuru
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Tactic
Materials Dye , Cotton , Silk
Dimensions Overall: 44 × 106 cm (17 5/16 × 41 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.89; 121A
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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