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Huipil, women's shirt, three pannels, no head hole, white with bands of gauze weave and white geometric designs
Huipil, women's shirt, three pannels, no head hole, white with bands of gauze weave and white geometric designs
Object Number 2013.24.25
Display Title Huipil, women's shirt, three pannels, no head hole, white with bands of gauze weave and white geometric designs
Descriptions
Object Description Huipil, shadow patterns; three pieces, no head hole, white cotton, backstrap loomed, all selvages loom finished, horizontal bands of leno or gauze weave with bands of white cotton supplementary weft brocading, geometric images
Inventory Description Huipil, women's shirt, three pannels, no head hole, white cotton with bands of gauze weave and white cotton supplementary weft brocade of geometric, floral, and figural design
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: 83 × 95 cm (32 11/16 × 37 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.25; 112
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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