Huipil, cofradía

Museum number:
3-29667
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Alternate number:
WT 192
Accession number:
Acc.4405
Description:
Huipil-cofradía: Backstrap-loomed, weft predominant plain weave. Tapestry woven weft. Two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Three pieces. Head hole cut out, bound with satin weave magenta commercial cloth and embroidery.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
Sacapulas, Quiché, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
El Quiche; Sacapulas
Culture or time period:
K'iche'
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Silk floss, Silk (? satin weave commercial cloth), and Wool yarn
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
1950s
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 51 centimeters and width 86 centimeters
Comment:
MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES: Cotton: white background; red, yellow and green geometric weft in body. Embroidery of silk floss in magenta, yellow, purple and blue-green. Wool weft, off-white, lavender, light green, purple, and blue. Half medallions in satin-weave cloth. CONTEXT OF USE: Ceremonial or cofradía huipil, one of 27 huipiles from Sacapulas. Iconography: Geometric in woven body. Embroidery in pinwheel/fan /oval motif. Weaver's mark of red, yellow, green cotton, 2-3 singles. Horizontal weft lines across one side of bottom plain white weave. Red cotton and purple silk dyed synthetically (Carlsen). T See also 3-29660 and 3-29668 CONSERVATION: Good. Some candle wax.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Huipil, cofradía, accession number 3-29667, described as Huipil-cofradía: Backstrap-loomed, weft predominant plain weave. Tapestry woven weft. Two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Three pieces. Head hole cut out, bound with satin weave magenta commercial cloth and embroidery.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Huipil, cofradía, accession number 3-29667, described as Huipil-cofradía: Backstrap-loomed, weft predominant plain weave. Tapestry woven weft. Two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Three pieces. Head hole cut out, bound with satin weave magenta commercial cloth and embroidery.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, cofradía, accession number 3-29667, described as Huipil-cofradía: Backstrap-loomed, weft predominant plain weave. Tapestry woven weft. Two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Three pieces. Head hole cut out, bound with satin weave magenta commercial cloth and embroidery.

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