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Huipil, women's shirt, three pieces sewen together, head hole uncut, sides unsewn, green with dense red, yellow, and blue geometric designs
Huipil, women's shirt, three pieces sewen together, head hole uncut, sides unsewn, green with dense red, yellow, and blue geometric designs
Object Number 2013.24.88
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, three pieces sewen together, head hole uncut, sides unsewn, green with dense red, yellow, and blue geometric designs
Descriptions
Object Description Huipil, three pieces, no head hole, backstrap loomed, all selvages loom finished, dark green cotton with multicolored cotton and silk single and two faced supplementary weft brocading, geometric images; mercerized thread, great colors, iconography, style
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, three pieces sewen together, head hole uncut, sides unsewn, green cotton with dense cotton and silk one and two sided supplementary weft brocade in red, yellow, and blue of geometric designs
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Tamahu
Materials Dye , Cotton , Silk , Mercerized cotton
Dimensions Overall: 48 × 102 cm (18 7/8 × 40 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.88; 121
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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