Collection place: Totonicapán Department, Guatemala / Year collected: [Missing] / Accession number: Acc.4497 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-29956, described as Treadle-loomed, balanced plain weave; two-faced supp. weft brocading; one piece; warps cut; no head hole cut out. 86.5 cm x 87.5 cm. Native name/meaning: Huipil/Blouse. Materials, techniques: Cotton: singles in black; 2 singles white, dark blue, dark green; 3 singles orange; 3 two-ply orange, purple, light dark pink, yellow, red, light and dark green, light blue; 6 two-ply pink, green, yellow, purple, orange, space-dyed (ombre); metallic singles. Context of use: Donated by Brian Tapp in memory of Rodolfo Alvarez Farfan. This treadle-loomed huipil has not been finished, as not head hole has been cut out, the sides open, the ends left loose. Metallic yarn acts are separators between bands of geometric motifs; upper half is supp. weft brocaded, while bottom half is black and white warp and weft; creating a "gray" appearance in color. Geometric, animals, butterflies, and snowflake iconography.

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-29958, described as Commercial polyester/cotton cloth; head hole cut out; sides open; embroidery at neckline and shoulder-line; unhemmed. 80 cm x 117 cm. Native name/meaning: Huipil/Blouse. Materials, techniques: Commercial cloth, white; embroidery of mercerized cotton, space dyed (ombra) in blues, greens, purple, yellow and lavender. Context of use: Donated by Brian Tapp in memory of Rodolfo Alvarez Farfan. This unfinished huipil is very similar to embroidery work done in the Yucatan by machine, although this piece may have been hand-embroidered. Square outlines of blue denote neckline and shoulder-lines, and are bordered on each side by large floral motifs; square head hole has been formed by cutting an "X" and folding back the four corners to the inside. Zigzag stitch around immediate neckline; embroidery at shoulder-line is 10" long and 2 3/4" wide panels.