Huipil

Museum number:
3-568
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Accession number:
Acc.172
Description:
Huipil; hand embroidered chemise of Matlatjinca costume; heavily embroidered dark red flowers and birds on white handspun cotton in plainweave with horizontal rows of evenly spaced openwork; 3 loom widths sewn together; width 92 cm, length 79 cm
Donor:
Zelia Nuttall
Collection place:
Guanajuato, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Guanajuato
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
Zelia Nuttall
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 76 centimeters and width 92 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-568, described as Huipil; hand embroidered chemise of Matlatjinca costume; heavily embroidered dark red flowers and birds on white handspun cotton in plainweave with horizontal rows of evenly spaced openwork; 3 loom widths sewn together; width 92 cm, length 79 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-568, described as Huipil; hand embroidered chemise of Matlatjinca costume; heavily embroidered dark red flowers and birds on white handspun cotton in plainweave with horizontal rows of evenly spaced openwork; 3 loom widths sewn together; width 92 cm, length 79 cm

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