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Huipil
Object Number 2013.24.185
Display Title Huipil
Descriptions
Object Description Huipil, ceremonial, floor loomed upper part, stitched to commercial cloth bottom, cut end selvage, multicolored silk and cotton two faced supplementary weft brocading, head hole cut out, embroidered with multicolored cotton and silk.
Inventory Description Huipil, commercial cloth bottom, cut end selvage, top of yellow and purple zigzag pattern of silk and cotton brocade, multicolored floral pattern at neckline, band of red and white zigzag pattern
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 Cotton , Silk , Dye
Dimensions Overall: 84 × 82 × 0.3 cm (33 1/16 × 32 5/16 × 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.185; 76
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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