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Huipil, women's shirt, neck hole cut, sides unstitched, white with multicolored geometric and zoomorphic designs and red shoulder pannels
Huipil, women's shirt, neck hole cut, sides unstitched, white with multicolored geometric and zoomorphic designs and red shoulder pannels
Object Number 2013.24.11
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, neck hole cut, sides unstitched, white with multicolored geometric and zoomorphic designs and red shoulder pannels
Descriptions
Object Description Huipil, complete, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, slit neck, bound with commercial cloth, white cotton, multicolored cotton and silk two faced supplementary weft brocading, red shoulders are wool, beautiful designs near bottom selvedges, animal and geometric designs.
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, neck hole cut and finished with blue cotton, sides unstitched, white cotton with multicolored cotton and silk two faced supplementary weft brocade of geometric and zoomorphic designs and red wool shoulder pannels
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Chimaltenango / <County> / San Juan Comalapa
Materials Dye , Cotton , Silk
Dimensions Overall: 110 × 106 cm (43 5/16 × 41 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.11
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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