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Object Number
2013.24.22
Display Title
Huipil, women's shirt, three pannels, square head hole uncut, white with white zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs
Descriptions
Object Description
Huipil, shadow patterns; three pieces, no head hole, white cotton, backstrap loomed, all selvages loom finished, white cotton supplementary weft brocading, figurative images
Inventory Description
Huipil, women's shirt, three pannels, square head hole uncut, white cotton with white cotton two faced supplementary weft brocade of geometric, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs
Classification
- Huipil
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
/
Guatemala
/
Alta Verapaz
/
<County>
/
Coban
Materials
Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 97 × 91 cm (38 3/16 × 35 13/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2013.24.22; 109
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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