Child's huipil

Museum number:
3-382
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1103 and Acc.53
Description:
Child’s upper (and only) garment (huipil); white commercial muslin; narrow band couch-stitch embroidery in floral patterns and scallops in blue, green, orange and black edging neck and hem; orange ribbon on each shoulder; 38 x 36 cm
Donor:
Crocker-Reid Fund and Mrs. Chelton Hill
Collection place:
Yucatán, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Yucatan
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
Zelia Nuttall
Collection date:
May 1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1953 and September 12, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 36.5 centimeters and width 38 centimeters
Comment:
Special needs: lightweight
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Child's huipil, accession number 3-382, described as Child’s upper (and only) garment (huipil); white commercial muslin; narrow band couch-stitch embroidery in floral patterns and scallops in blue, green, orange and black edging neck and hem; orange ribbon on each shoulder; 38 x 36 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Child's huipil, accession number 3-382, described as Child’s upper (and only) garment (huipil); white commercial muslin; narrow band couch-stitch embroidery in floral patterns and scallops in blue, green, orange and black edging neck and hem; orange ribbon on each shoulder; 38 x 36 cm

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