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Huipil, half, women's shirt, white with multicolored geometric designs and largered horiztonal bands
Huipil, half, women's shirt, white with multicolored geometric designs and largered horiztonal bands
Object Number 2013.24.16
Display Title Huipil, half, women's shirt, white with multicolored geometric designs and largered horiztonal bands
Descriptions
Object Description Half of a huipil, backstrap loomed, warps cut and create fringes, white cotton, multicolored wool and cotton two faced supplementary weft brocading, large red wool horizontal bands, multicolored cotton wefts, dense geometric weft designs.
Inventory Description Huipil, half, women's shirt, white cotton with multicolored wool and cotton two faced supplementary weft brocade of geometric designs and largered red horiztonal bands
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Chimaltenango / <County> / San Jose Poaquil
Materials Dye , Cotton , Wool
Dimensions Overall: 120 × 50 cm (47 1/4 × 19 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.16
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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