Huipil- Casamiento: Lace, commercial cotton, 1 piece. Ends hand stitched; head hole cut out and faced with manta, also sleeve openings. Embroidered with cotton whipping stitch. (25.5 cm X 63.5 cm). Context: short style; lace German influence, from rural Coban, fiesta costume (Hun). Bottom could have worn out and been cut off. Olga Arriola de Geng Some wear, little rip at neck seam.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Coban, Alta Verapaz,
Culture or time period:
Q'eqchi'
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works), Huipils, and Lace (needlework)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
1960s
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 25.5 centimeters and width 63.5 centimeters