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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Hair piece, museum number 3-30012, described as Listo, woman's hair piece.Commercially woven cloth; balanced plain weave; warp ends cut; side selvages machine-finished. 396 cm x 16.5 cm. Possibly acetate: 24 singles in blue; 32 singes in blue. Women in Chimaltenango and Solola use these intertwined in their hair braids.

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, museum number 3-30006, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; single-faced supporting weft brocading; two pieces joined with hand stitching; one end loom-finished, other end has warps cut and hand hemmed; head hole slit unfinished. 38 cm x 58.5 cm. Cotton: 1 two-ply in black. Mercerized cotton: 3 two-ply in brown, green, aqua, maroon, orange, purple, white, red, light and dark pink, light and dark green, light and dark blue, yellow and lavender. This chi'd's huipil is unfinished; the head hole slit has not been opened. Rows of multicolored supporting weft brocading are evenly spaced throughout the whole piece Iconography consists of geometric motifs.

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