Backstrap-loomed,warp predominant plain weave . Two-faced supp. weft brocading. One piece, one end selvedge loom-finished, other end warps cut and hand-hemmed. Sides hand-stitched, square neck opening cut into plain central square, edge faced with commercial cloth.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
Palín, Escuintla, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Escuintla; Palin
Culture or time period:
Poqomam
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile) (some handspun and sedalina)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Production date:
1960s
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Comment:
MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES: Single cotton in white, red; single and two-ply sedalina in gold, green, and lavender. Backstrap-loomed. Native name and meaning: huipil diario; daily women's blouse CONTEXT OF USE: Everyday style; unusual designs in vertical form next to red bands at shoulders. At edges of central design panel supplementary weft yarns brought along edge and wrapped once around the vertical "post", different that the knotting techniques of servilletas 3-29699 and 3-29697 at edges of those central panels. On red suppl. weft yarns cotton not dyed red to core/center of twist, white visible- homedyed and handspun. CONSERVATION: worn. Some holes, repairs with two singles white and red cotton yarns.