Huipil

Museum number:
3-28081
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030028081
Alternate number:
811 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.02
Description:
[ cat card Description:Blouse ? two widths sewn together Materials:cotton, silk? Technique: plain weave, picked in design Colors: White ground, varicolored design Dimensions: 46 x 47" Remarks: Geometric motives ]
Donor:
Albert M. Bender and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Mayan
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk (picked-in design, silk?)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 123 centimeters and length 113 centimeters
Comment:
2 pieced huipil
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28081, described as [ cat card Description:Blouse ? two widths sewn together Materials:cotton, silk? Technique: plain weave, picked in design Colors: White ground, varicolored design Dimensions: 46 x 47" Remarks: Geometric motives ]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28081, described as [ cat card Description:Blouse ? two widths sewn together Materials:cotton, silk? Technique: plain weave, picked in design Colors: White ground, varicolored design Dimensions: 46 x 47" Remarks: Geometric motives ]Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28081, described as [ cat card Description:Blouse ? two widths sewn together Materials:cotton, silk? Technique: plain weave, picked in design Colors: White ground, varicolored design Dimensions: 46 x 47" Remarks: Geometric motives ]

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