Huipil, fiesta

Museum number:
3-29850
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4405
Description:
Commercial cotton cloth, no brocading, two lienzos joined front and back by hand, head hole cut out, finished with button-hole stitch and elaborate embroidery.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
Totonicapán Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Totonicapan; Santa Maria Chiquimula, Guatemala
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
1960-1970
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Huipil, fiesta, accession number 3-29850, described as Commercial cotton cloth, no brocading, two lienzos joined front and back by hand, head hole cut out, finished with button-hole stitch and elaborate embroidery.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Huipil, fiesta, accession number 3-29850, described as Commercial cotton cloth, no brocading, two lienzos joined front and back by hand, head hole cut out, finished with button-hole stitch and elaborate embroidery.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Huipil, fiesta, accession number 3-29850, described as Commercial cotton cloth, no brocading, two lienzos joined front and back by hand, head hole cut out, finished with button-hole stitch and elaborate embroidery.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, fiesta, accession number 3-29850, described as Commercial cotton cloth, no brocading, two lienzos joined front and back by hand, head hole cut out, finished with button-hole stitch and elaborate embroidery.

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