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Huipil, women's shirt, two panels, white with lavender and red geometric designs
Huipil, women's shirt, two panels, white with lavender and red geometric designs
Object Number 2013.24.1
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, two panels, white with lavender and red geometric designs
Descriptions
Object Description Wedding huipil, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, no head hole, two pieces joined by randa, white cotton, multicolored single and two faced supplementary weft brocading, animal and geometric images
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, two panels joined with a cotton randa, head hole not cut and sides not sewn, white cotton with lavender/light brown and red cotton single faced and two faced supplementary weft brocade of zoomorphic and geometric designs
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1941-1943 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Guatemala / <County> / San Pedro Sacatepequez
Materials Dye , Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 128 × 134 cm (50 3/8 × 52 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.1
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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