Huipil

Museum number:
3-32178
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Alternate number:
ACW Guatemala #22 (previous number, Margot Schevill checklist number)
Accession number:
Acc.4804
Description:
Back-strap woven, three piece, cotton (lienzo) huipil. Two side panels are white with blue warp and weft stripes creating rectangles. Central panel blue warp and ground cloth with green, red warp stripes and two bands of multicolored stripes in supplementary weft. Square cut out neckline is rolled and entirely covered in thick embroidery floss in multiple colored sections. Warp threads cut and left loose. Machine sewn seams.
Donor:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection place:
Sololá Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
San Antonio Palopo
Culture or time period:
Maya
Collector:
Anne Connell Wilson
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Huipils
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
March 6, 2017
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
Whole— depth 1 centimeters, Whole— length 58 centimeters, and Whole— width 58.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Huipil, accession number 3-32178, described as Back-strap woven, three piece, cotton (lienzo) huipil. Two side panels are white with blue warp and weft stripes creating rectangles. Central panel blue warp and ground cloth with green, red warp stripes and two bands of multicolored stripes in supplementary weft. Square cut out neckline is rolled and entirely covered in thick embroidery floss in multiple colored sections. Warp threads cut and left loose. Machine sewn seams.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Huipil, accession number 3-32178, described as Back-strap woven, three piece, cotton (lienzo) huipil. Two side panels are white with blue warp and weft stripes creating rectangles. Central panel blue warp and ground cloth with green, red warp stripes and two bands of multicolored stripes in supplementary weft. Square cut out neckline is rolled and entirely covered in thick embroidery floss in multiple colored sections. Warp threads cut and left loose. Machine sewn seams.

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