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Huipil
Object Number 2013.24.175
Display Title Huipil
Descriptions
Object Description Child's huipil, one piece, one end loom finished, other end warps cut, create fringes, red and white cotton stripes, multicolored cotton and silk single faced supplementary weft brocading, human, geometric images
Inventory Description Huipil, red, white stripes, multicolored brocade geometric, human figures, one fringed end
Classification
  • Huipil
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Solola / <County> / Santa Catarina Palopo
Materials Cotton , Dye ,
Dimensions Overall: 92 × 52 cm (36 1/4 × 20 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.175; 166
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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