Huipil

Museum number:
3-42
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
42 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
Huipil of woman; white cotton; plain and twill weaves; brocaded with cotton and silk threads in many colors; neck bound with ribbon; garment machine stitched; approximately 95 cm wide, 108 cm long; commercially spun red silk is synthetic (see letter in acc. env.)
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
San Cristobal Totonicapan, Totonicapan, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Totonicapan, Totonicapan, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
K'iche' and Maya
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk (floss)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 95 centimeters and length 108 centimeters
Comment:
w/ photo of women at a fountain See Eisen archives in museum library
Loans:
S1974-1975 #1: Beatriz Lopez-Wilcox (July 3, 1974–July 8, 1974)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-42, described as Huipil of woman; white cotton; plain and twill weaves; brocaded with cotton and silk threads in many colors; neck bound with ribbon; garment machine stitched; approximately 95 cm wide, 108 cm long; commercially spun red silk is synthetic (see letter in acc. env.)Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-42, described as Huipil of woman; white cotton; plain and twill weaves; brocaded with cotton and silk threads in many colors; neck bound with ribbon; garment machine stitched; approximately 95 cm wide, 108 cm long; commercially spun red silk is synthetic (see letter in acc. env.)Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-42, described as Huipil of woman; white cotton; plain and twill weaves; brocaded with cotton and silk threads in many colors; neck bound with ribbon; garment machine stitched; approximately 95 cm wide, 108 cm long; commercially spun red silk is synthetic (see letter in acc. env.)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-42, described as Huipil of woman; white cotton; plain and twill weaves; brocaded with cotton and silk threads in many colors; neck bound with ribbon; garment machine stitched; approximately 95 cm wide, 108 cm long; commercially spun red silk is synthetic (see letter in acc. env.)

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