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Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-69, described as Woman’s shirt or "guipil"; white cotton; basket weave; also yellow and red; brocaded dark blue cotton; red and yellow silk embroidery; purple, red, green and yellow silk; embroidery around neck; approximately 1 m 19 cm wide 1 m 6 cm long; Red silk floss is cochineal (see letter in acc. env.)
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-17, described as Woman’ shirt (huipil); white cotton; brocaded with red and yellow; stitched in dark blue; appliqued in dark blue ribbon; approximately 78 cm long, 96 cm wide For the color red the fiber is silk and the dye result is cochineal
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, cofradía, accession number 3-29662, described as Huipil-cofradía: Backstrap-loomed, weft predominant plain weave. Tapestry woven weft. Two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Three pieces joined with randa at front, back, and sides. Ends cut and hand hemmed. Head hole cut out and edged with embroidery.
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, cofradía, accession number 3-29665, described as Huipil-cofradía: Backstrap-loomed, weft predominant plain weave. Tapestry woven weft. Two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Three pieces. Ends cut and hand-hemmed. Head hole cut out and bound with decorative silk neckpiece (satin cloth).
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, cofradía, accession number 3-29666, described as Huipil-cofradía: Backstrap-loomed, weft predominant plain weave. Tapestry woven weft. Two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Three pieces. Head hole cut out and bound by commercial decorative silk neckpiece.
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, cofradía, accession number 3-29658, described as Huipil-cofradía: Backstrap-loomed, weft predominant plain weave. Tapestry woven weft. Two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Three pieces joined with randa at front, back, and sides. Three ends loom-finished, three cut and hand-hemmed. Head hole cut out and bound with magenta silk and embroidery.
Hearst Museum object titled Jacket, accession number 3-11, described as Jacket (coton); black wool; fulled to appear felted; fringed along bottom of back side; red and yellow embroidery; also dark blue ribbon binding and applique; inside collar of dark blue wool; approximately 45 cm long, 106 cm around bottom
Hearst Museum object titled Loincloth, accession number 9-11400, described as Loin cloth; man's; handwoven, plain weave cotton in a red, yellow, white, green plaid; blue selvages; Length 178 cm., Width 123 cm. Made by men.
Hearst Museum object titled Poncho fragment, accession number 2-47037, described as Poncho remnant; wool; white ground with indigo bands; terraced indigo diamonds broken by narrow yellow and dark pink bands; fragment of yellow-green cotton cloth at head opening; poor condition; selvage gone. 1-ply wool yarn, cotton cloth; tapestry weave; both Z and S-twist raveled yarns; raveled pink and red are dyed with cochineal (see Joe Ben Wheat letter in accession envelope).
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 16-20220, described as Shawl (fragment) 49 centimeter w x 99 centimeters; tiny tassels of warp threads at one end; black ground with red ikat.

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