Huipil
- Museum number:
- 3-29639
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030029639
- Alternate number:
- WT 226 (original number, temp)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4405
- Description:
- Huipil: Backstrap-loomed, plain weave. Two-faced supp. weft brocading. Three pieces joined back, front, and sides by randa. End selvedges loom-finished. Head hole cut out and hemmed with hand-stitching; decorated with neckpiece.
- Donor:
- Janet Tellefsen
- Collection place:
- Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala
- Verbatim coll. place:
- El Quiche (K'iche); Chichicastenango
- Culture or time period:
- K'iche'
- Collector:
- Thomas Whittaker
- Collection date:
- late 1960s-1976
- Materials:
- Acrylic yarn, Cotton (textile), and Silk floss
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Huipils
- Function:
- 2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
- Production date:
- 1940s
- Accession date:
- March 1, 1989
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- width 81 centimeters and length 74 centimeters
- Comment:
- MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES: : Backstrap-loomed of brown cotton single (2,3) yarns. Suppl. weft brocading of multicolored silk floss. Neck-piece of silk floss and black commercial cloth. Neck-piece forms points all around and medallions at centers front/back, shoulders. CONTEXT OF USE: Neck piece of silk floss and black commercial cloth forming appliqued points all around and medallions at front, back and shoulders; possibly a cofrádia huipil ( see Rowe p. 88 Fig 69). New stitches in randa and elsewhere in yellow cotton and green acrylic (Arriola de Geng). See also 3-145 CONSERVATION:Worn, especially weft and brocading in some places are threadbare; some holes; several stains.
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