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Huipil, women's shirt, three pieces sewn together, uncut head hole, white and red with multicolored geometric and zigzag designs
Huipil, women's shirt, three pieces sewn together, uncut head hole, white and red with multicolored geometric and zigzag designs
Object Number 2013.24.152
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, three pieces sewn together, uncut head hole, white and red with multicolored geometric and zigzag designs
Descriptions
Object Description Huipil, three pieces, hand stitched together, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, no head hole, white and red cotton with multicolored cotton single and two faced supplementary weft brocading, geometric with zigzag designs
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, three pieces sewn together, uncut head hole, white and red cotton with single and two faced supplementary weft brocade multicolored geometric and zigzag designs
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Coban
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Tactic
Materials Dye , Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 51 × 85 cm (20 1/16 × 33 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.152
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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