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Half huipil, one piece, white with purple birds, trees, and diamonds and small bands of dark pink geometric designs at edges
Half huipil, one piece, white with purple birds, trees, and diamonds and small bands of dark pink geometric designs at edges
Object Number 2013.24.61
Display Title Half huipil, one piece, white with purple birds, trees, and diamonds and small bands of dark pink geometric designs at edges
Descriptions
Object Description A and B, two pieces, halves of a huipil, white cotton, floor loomed, two faced purple and red cotton supplementary weft brocaded, foliage, birds, "eyes of Our Lord" (Dodge quote), one half [B] badly faded, probably synthetic dye
Inventory Description Huipil, half, one piece, white cotton with purple cotton two faced supplementary weft brocade of birds, diamonds, and trees and small bands of dark pink geometric designs at edges
Classification
  • Shirt
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / San Marcos / <County> / San Pedro Sacatepequez
Materials Dye , Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 46 × 158 cm (18 1/8 × 62 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.61; 74
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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