Huipil

Museum number:
3-28093
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1410 (previous number (Design Dept.)) and LMO 87 (previous number (Lila M. O'Neale), LMO cat #)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.03
Description:
[ cat card Description:Blouse Materials: Cotton Technique: Plain weave, embroidered Colors: White with touches of black, red, purple Dimensions: 28 x 36" Remarks: Ornamental seam stitching, two birds at shoulder, two spots near hem embroidered. ]
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection place:
Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala,Santo Tomas Chichicastenango
Culture or time period:
Mayan
Collector:
Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection date:
1936
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
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:
length 28 inches and width 36 inches
Comment:
huipil
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28093, described as [ cat card Description:Blouse Materials: Cotton Technique: Plain weave, embroidered Colors: White with touches of black, red, purple Dimensions: 28 x 36" Remarks: Ornamental seam stitching, two birds at shoulder, two spots near hem embroidered. ]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28093, described as [ cat card Description:Blouse Materials: Cotton Technique: Plain weave, embroidered Colors: White with touches of black, red, purple Dimensions: 28 x 36" Remarks: Ornamental seam stitching, two birds at shoulder, two spots near hem embroidered. ]Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28093, described as [ cat card Description:Blouse Materials: Cotton Technique: Plain weave, embroidered Colors: White with touches of black, red, purple Dimensions: 28 x 36" Remarks: Ornamental seam stitching, two birds at shoulder, two spots near hem embroidered. ]

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