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Huipil, women's shirt, two panels, head hole cut, white with lavender and red zoomorphic and geometric designs
Huipil, women's shirt, two panels, head hole cut, white with lavender and red zoomorphic and geometric designs
Object Number 2013.24.4
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, two panels, head hole cut, white with lavender and red zoomorphic and geometric designs
Descriptions
Object Description Huipil, backstrap loomed, selvages loom finished, head hole cut out, embroidered with silk, white cotton, predominantly purple and red two faced supplementary weft brocading, animal images, purple dye has faded in area across the shoulders
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, two panels joined with a cotton randa, head hole cut and sides not sewn, white cotton with purple and red cotton single faced and two faced supplementary weft brocade of zoomorphic and geometric designs, multicolored silk embroidery around neck
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Guatemala / <County> / San Pedro Sacatepequez
Materials Dye , Cotton , Silk
Dimensions Overall: 128 × 128 cm (50 3/8 × 50 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.4
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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