Huipil, fiesta

Museum number:
3-29810
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
WT HH (temporary number)
Accession number:
Acc.4405
Description:
Treadle-loomed, plain weave, two-faced supp. weft brocading, two lienzos, warps cut and machine-hemmed, joined at sides by handsewn stitching, head hole cut out, finished with button hole stitching.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
San Pedro Sacatepéquez, Guatemala Dept, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Quezaltenango
Culture or time period:
K'iche'
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Production date:
1930s
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Comment:
Base cloth has no supp. weft brocading but has narrow ridges created from using an occasional thicker weft; there is a brand of purple cotton brocading dividing white base cloth and silk folded brocading that dominates upper portion of huipil; rest of brocading is all in silk floss in horizontal bands of patterns; head hole is finished with silk floss (purple and red); areas around neck line is elaborately embroidered also with silk floss in floral designs; there are two small snaps on neckline; arm holes are finished with button hole stitch in pink silk floss; base booth is very similar to that women in San Pedro Sacatepequez, San Marcos. Neck opening decoration is done over the original; dating relates to use of silk; embroidery designs around neck are so special; embroiderers from Quezaltenango were the best as seen in ceremonial huipiles 3-29742, 29747; now embroidered with machine (Arriola de Geng).
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Huipil, fiesta, accession number 3-29810, described as Treadle-loomed, plain weave, two-faced supp. weft brocading, two lienzos, warps cut and machine-hemmed, joined at sides by handsewn stitching, head hole cut out, finished with button hole stitching.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Huipil, fiesta, accession number 3-29810, described as Treadle-loomed, plain weave, two-faced supp. weft brocading, two lienzos, warps cut and machine-hemmed, joined at sides by handsewn stitching, head hole cut out, finished with button hole stitching.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, fiesta, accession number 3-29810, described as Treadle-loomed, plain weave, two-faced supp. weft brocading, two lienzos, warps cut and machine-hemmed, joined at sides by handsewn stitching, head hole cut out, finished with button hole stitching.

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