Huipil

Museum number:
3-32175
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Alternate number:
ACW Guatemala #19 (previous number, Margot Schevill checklist number)
Accession number:
Acc.4804
Description:
Two piece cotton back-strap woven huipil with green and white warp stripes. The neckline is diamond shaped with the cut section machine sewn inside as interfacing. Neckline and shoulders are finished with heavy fuscia chain stitched embroidery. The majority of the huipil of single sided horizontal stripes of supplementary weft, the designs are birds and other animals, plants and geometric shapes. There is a prominent band of vertical zigzags woven across the chest. There are vertical tucks the entire length of the huipil. The two pieces are joined with machine stitching, there is no randa. Many loose threads, especially around the bottom of the huipil, especially around the neckline and armholes. Both ends irregularly cut and left fringed.
Donor:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection place:
San Lucas Tolimán, Sololá, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
San Lucas Toliman
Culture or time period:
Maya
Collector:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection date:
2004
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— length 62.5 centimeters, Whole— depth 0.4 centimeters, and Whole— width 107.3 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Huipil, accession number 3-32175, described as Two piece cotton back-strap woven huipil with green and white warp stripes. The neckline is diamond shaped with the cut section machine sewn inside as interfacing. Neckline and shoulders are finished with heavy fuscia chain stitched embroidery. The majority of the huipil of single sided horizontal stripes of supplementary weft, the designs are birds and other animals, plants and geometric shapes. There is a prominent band of vertical zigzags woven across the chest. There are vertical tucks the entire length of the huipil. The two pieces are joined with machine stitching, there is no randa. Many loose threads, especially around the bottom of the huipil, especially around the neckline and armholes. Both ends irregularly cut and left fringed.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Huipil, accession number 3-32175, described as Two piece cotton back-strap woven huipil with green and white warp stripes. The neckline is diamond shaped with the cut section machine sewn inside as interfacing. Neckline and shoulders are finished with heavy fuscia chain stitched embroidery. The majority of the huipil of single sided horizontal stripes of supplementary weft, the designs are birds and other animals, plants and geometric shapes. There is a prominent band of vertical zigzags woven across the chest. There are vertical tucks the entire length of the huipil. The two pieces are joined with machine stitching, there is no randa. Many loose threads, especially around the bottom of the huipil, especially around the neckline and armholes. Both ends irregularly cut and left fringed.

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