Huipil

Museum number:
3-29852
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4405
Description:
Backstrap-loomed, warp-predominant plain weave, four pieces, joined center, front and back and at shoulders with hand stitching, warps cut, head hole cut out, finished with decorative stitch.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
Totonicapán Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Totonicapan; Santa Maria Chiquimula, Guatemala
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
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-29852, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-predominant plain weave, four pieces, joined center, front and back and at shoulders with hand stitching, warps cut, head hole cut out, finished with decorative stitch.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-29852, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-predominant plain weave, four pieces, joined center, front and back and at shoulders with hand stitching, warps cut, head hole cut out, finished with decorative stitch.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-29852, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-predominant plain weave, four pieces, joined center, front and back and at shoulders with hand stitching, warps cut, head hole cut out, finished with decorative stitch.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-29852, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-predominant plain weave, four pieces, joined center, front and back and at shoulders with hand stitching, warps cut, head hole cut out, finished with decorative stitch.

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