Huipil

Museum number:

3-29602

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

WT 56 (original number, temp)

Accession number:

Acc.4405

Description:

Huipil: Backstrap-loomed, plain weave. Two-faced supp. weft brocading. Two pieces joined at middle and side seams by hand stitching, front end selvedge machine-hemmed, back end selvedge loom-finished,

Donor:

Janet Tellefsen

Collection place:

San Juan Comalapa, Chimaltenango Department, Guatemala

Verbatim coll. place:

Comalapa, Chimaltenango

Culture or time period:

Kaqchikel

Collector:

Thomas Whittaker

Collection date:

late 1960s-1976

Materials:

Cotton (textile), Silk floss (silk floss supplementary weft), and Velvet (fabric weave) (velveteen binding)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Huipils

Function:

2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)

Production date:

1960s

Accession date:

March 1, 1989

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area

Dimensions:

width 77.5 centimeters and length 52 centimeters

Comment:

MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES: Backstrap-loomed, plain weave,cotton threads, white singles. Creya stripe is 8 red singles. Suppl weft cotton and silk floss. Head hole slit, bound with black velveteen, sleeve opening bound with black velveteen. CONTEXT OF USE: Creya style or red bands at shoulders, creya area is not weft-faced but weft predominant. One to two blue or purple cotton singles twisted with white and used in alternating directions in only two weft rows creating a herringbone; with each twisted herringbone are two row of red cotton woven with a white natural fiber (wool?). CONSERVATION: good, but ripped and frayed at back neck opening.

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