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Huipil, women's shirt, three panels, head hole uncut, dark blue with red and some multicolored geometric images
Huipil, women's shirt, three panels, head hole uncut, dark blue with red and some multicolored geometric images
Object Number 2013.24.87
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, three panels, head hole uncut, dark blue with red and some multicolored geometric images
Descriptions
Object Description Huipil, three pieces, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, dark blue (indigo?) cotton with multicolored cotton single and two faced supplementary weft brocading, geometric images, zigzag in center panel
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, three panels, head hole uncut, dark blue cotton with red and some multicolored geometric images, center pannel has a zigzag design, while end panels have geometrics and trees with birds on top
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Tactic
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Tamahu
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Tucuru
Materials Dye , Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 82 × 90 cm (32 5/16 × 35 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.87
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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