Huipil: Backstrap-loomed, warp predominant plain weave. Single-faced suppl. weft brocading. Three pieces joined front and back by handsewing, sides closed. Loom-finished end selvedges; head hole cut out and handsewn.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
Todos Santos Cuchumatan, Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Todos Santos Cuchumatan, Huehuetenango
Culture or time period:
Mam
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Production date:
1940s
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 71.2 centimeters and width 85.2 centimeters
Comment:
MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES: Backstrap loomed; Cotton: singles in white (predominant), red, peach, light green.; one two-ply in navy and yellow. Wool- one two-ply in navy blue and singles in green, rose, purple, blue-gray. Native name and meaning: Huipil- blouse CONTEXT OF USE: Head hole framed by ruffle of white commercial cloth that is decorated with brown and red rickrack and three red roundels. Center panel is heavily brocaded with red wefts that are broken up by multi-colored weft stripes in wool. Shoulder areas on side lienzos have similar brocading although not as rich. Warps stripes of red and white predominantly (along with blue, peach, yellow and pale green) are fairly wide, suggesting it was manufactured between 1940-1965 (Rowe). Dating relates to wider stripes than in past and less white in them (Arriola de Geng). See also 3-29731-32 CONSERVATION: Good. Slightly faded. End selvedges are only slightly frayed.