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Huipil (ceremonial), women's shirt, three panels, white with lavender and multicolored geometric designs in rectangles on front, back, and shoulders, black taffeta triangles around neck and circles on shoulders
Huipil (ceremonial), women's shirt, three panels, white with lavender and multicolored geometric designs in rectangles on front, back, and shoulders, black taffeta triangles around neck and circles on shoulders
Object Number 2013.24.30
Display Title Huipil (ceremonial), women's shirt, three panels, white with lavender and multicolored geometric designs in rectangles on front, back, and shoulders, black taffeta triangles around neck and circles on shoulders
Descriptions
Object Description Ceremonial huipil, three pieces, white for ceremonial use, hand sewn together with black stitching, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, head hole cut out, decorated with triangular pieces of black taffeta (neck) and lavender silk embroidery, black taffeta medallions (shoulders) also decorated with lavender silk embroidery, purple and multicolored silk two faced supplementary weft brocading, abstracted double-headed [eagle] and geometric designs
Inventory Description Huipil (ceremonial), women's shirt, three panels sewn together with black stitching, head hole cut out, white cotton with lavender silk embroidery and purple and multicolored silk two faced supplementary weft brocading of geometric designs in rectangles on front, back, and shoulders, black taffeta triangles around neck and circles on shoulders
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / El Quiche / <County> / Chichicastenango
Materials Dye , Cotton , Silk
Dimensions Overall: 71 × 82 cm (27 15/16 × 32 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.30
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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