Huipil

Museum number:
3-29434
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Accession number:
Acc.4117
Description:
huipil; unbleached cotton with supplementry wefts of red and yellow randomly woven. Neckline is embroidered with figures and flower motifs on a yellow ground (silk?) A horizonal band of red, yellow and lavender runs about midsection. The central and side seams are covered by banding of embroidered red and yellow squares. The bottom is hemmed (hand-stitched), the armholes sef-selvaged.
Donor:
Mrs. Harry B. Perrin
Collection place:
Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Quezaltenango
Culture or time period:
Guatemalan
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
before 1987
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-29434, described as huipil; unbleached cotton with supplementry wefts of red and yellow randomly woven. Neckline is embroidered with figures and flower motifs on a yellow ground (silk?) A horizonal band of red, yellow and lavender runs about midsection. The central and side seams are covered by banding of embroidered red and yellow squares. The bottom is hemmed (hand-stitched), the armholes sef-selvaged.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-29434, described as huipil; unbleached cotton with supplementry wefts of red and yellow randomly woven. Neckline is embroidered with figures and flower motifs on a yellow ground (silk?) A horizonal band of red, yellow and lavender runs about midsection. The central and side seams are covered by banding of embroidered red and yellow squares. The bottom is hemmed (hand-stitched), the armholes sef-selvaged.

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