Object name: Doll huipil / Collector: John Barr Tompkins / Culture or time period: Mesoamerican peoples - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Doll huipil, accession number 3-26942, described as huipil (blouse) for doll; varicolor embroidery in glass beads on shoulders (edge of sleeve) and yoke; with across sleeves; part of costume for cardboard doll used by brujo. Dolls buried in fields in pairs (male and female), dressed in miniature costumes of San Pablito natives. The color of the costume or of part of the costume denotes the crop whose development is especially desired, e.g. honey, bush beam. See notes in accompanying envelope. purchased from widow of brujo. Also see 3-26940-41.