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Object Number
2013.24.178
Display Title
Center panel of huipil
Descriptions
Object Description
Center panel of a huipil, back strap loomed, loom finished selvages, dark blue (indigo?) cotton with single and two faced multicolored supplementary weft brocading, figurative and geometric images.
Inventory Description
huipil, child's, center section, dark blue ground, white, green, blue brocade geometric and figurative images
Classification
- Shirt
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
/
Guatemala
/
Alta Verapaz
/
<County>
/
Tactic
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / San Pedro Carcha
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Coban
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / San Pedro Carcha
Central America / Guatemala / Alta Verapaz / <County> / Coban
Materials
Cotton , Dye
Dimensions
Overall: 88 × 28.5 cm (34 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2013.24.178; 123A
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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