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Huipil, women's shirt, white with dense dark blue birds and dark blue, green, and yellow, purple geometric designs
Huipil, women's shirt, white with dense dark blue birds and dark blue, green, and yellow, purple geometric designs
Object Number 2013.24.108.1
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, white with dense dark blue birds and dark blue, green, and yellow, purple geometric designs
Descriptions
Object Description One half of a huipil, floor loomed, selvages cut and hemmed, white cotton with multicolored cotton two faced supplementary weft brocading, geometric and bird images
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, white cotton with dense cotton two faced supplementary weft brocading of dark blue birds and dark blue, yellow and purple geometric designs
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Quetzaltenango / <County> / Quetzaltenango
Materials Dye , Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 165 × 40 cm (64 15/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.108.1; 84
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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