Huipil

Museum number:
3-28119
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1393 (previous number (Design Dept.)) and LMO 107 (previous number (Lila M. O'Neale), LMO cat #)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.03
Description:
Blouse. Cotton. Gauze and plain weaves, brocaded. White ground, green designs. Floral, human figure, animal motifs. 18.5 inches x 38 inches
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection place:
Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala, Coban
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 92.71 centimeters and width 96.52 centimeters
Comment:
Special needs: lightweight huipil per LMO text P. 78 thread pairs are 24 x 24 per inch
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28119, described as Blouse. Cotton. Gauze and plain weaves, brocaded. White ground, green designs. Floral, human figure, animal motifs. 18.5 inches x 38 inches
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28119, described as Blouse. Cotton. Gauze and plain weaves, brocaded. White ground, green designs. Floral, human figure, animal motifs. 18.5 inches x 38 inchesDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28119, described as Blouse. Cotton. Gauze and plain weaves, brocaded. White ground, green designs. Floral, human figure, animal motifs. 18.5 inches x 38 inches

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