Huipil, child

Museum number:
3-81
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
81 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
Child’s shirt or huipil; 3-81 half of garment?; twilled cotton; multicolored stripes; warp cut to form fringe at bottom; 28 cm long, 17 cm wide at bottom
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
San Cristobal Totonicapan, Totonicapan, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Totonicapan, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
K'iche'
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 28 centimeters and width 17 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below. see also 3-82
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Huipil, child, accession number 3-81, described as Child’s shirt or huipil; 3-81 half of garment?; twilled cotton; multicolored stripes; warp cut to form fringe at bottom; 28 cm long, 17 cm wide at bottomHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Huipil, child, accession number 3-81, described as Child’s shirt or huipil; 3-81 half of garment?; twilled cotton; multicolored stripes; warp cut to form fringe at bottom; 28 cm long, 17 cm wide at bottom
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, child, accession number 3-81, described as Child’s shirt or huipil; 3-81 half of garment?; twilled cotton; multicolored stripes; warp cut to form fringe at bottom; 28 cm long, 17 cm wide at bottom

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