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Huipil, half, one piece, white with purple trees, multicolored birds and small bands of dark pink geometric designs at edges, fringes
Huipil, half, one piece, white with purple trees, multicolored birds and small bands of dark pink geometric designs at edges, fringes
Object Number 2013.24.63
Display Title Huipil, half, one piece, white with purple trees, multicolored birds and small bands of dark pink geometric designs at edges, fringes
Descriptions
Object Description A and B, two pieces, halves of a huipil, white cotton, no head hole, the stitching of the randa has come apart in places, floor loomed, cut end selvages, multicolored silk and cotton two faced supplementary weft brocade; red ink writing on bottom: C 1550?
Inventory Description Huipil, half, one piece, white cotton with purple trees, multicolored silk and cotton two faced supplementary weft brocade of birds and small bands of dark pink cotton geometric designs at edges, fringes, other half of 75B?
Classification
  • Huipil
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 , Silk
Dimensions Overall: 158 × 47 cm (62 3/16 × 18 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.63; 75
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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