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Huipil, women's shirt, short, head hole cut square and sides sewn, white with wide red bands at edges, red and blue birds and dots
Huipil, women's shirt, short, head hole cut square and sides sewn, white with wide red bands at edges, red and blue birds and dots
Object Number 2013.24.95
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, short, head hole cut square and sides sewn, white with wide red bands at edges, red and blue birds and dots
Descriptions
Object Description Huipil, one piece, very short, selvages cut and hemmed, backstrap loomed, white and red cotton borders, multicolored cotton single faced supplementary weft brocade, cut out square neck, hand sewn, bird images, dots
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, short, head hole cut square and sides sewn, white cotton with wide red cotton bands at edges, two faced supplementary weft brocading of red, blue, and yellow birds and dots
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Escuintla / <County> / Palin
Materials Dye , Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 35 × 69 cm (13 3/4 × 27 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.95
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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