Huipil

Museum number:
3-28112
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1413 (previous number (Design Dept.)) and LMO 164 (previous number (Lila M. O'Neale), LMO cat #)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.03
Description:
[ cat card Description: Blouse Materials: cotton, silk Technique: Plain weave, embroidered at neckline Colors: White ground, varicolored designs Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 23 3/4 " Remarks: Floral motives ]
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection place:
San Cristobal Totonicapan, Totonicapan, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala San Cristóbal
Culture or time period:
Mayan
Collector:
Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection date:
1936
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
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 23.75 inches and width 24.5 inches
Comment:
called girls huipil LMO text p 175
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-28112, described as [ cat card Description: Blouse Materials: cotton, silk Technique: Plain weave, embroidered at neckline Colors: White ground, varicolored designs Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 23 3/4 " Remarks: Floral motives ]Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-28112, described as [ cat card Description: Blouse Materials: cotton, silk Technique: Plain weave, embroidered at neckline Colors: White ground, varicolored designs Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 23 3/4 " Remarks: Floral motives ]Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-28112, described as [ cat card Description: Blouse Materials: cotton, silk Technique: Plain weave, embroidered at neckline Colors: White ground, varicolored designs Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 23 3/4 " Remarks: Floral motives ]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28112, described as [ cat card Description: Blouse Materials: cotton, silk Technique: Plain weave, embroidered at neckline Colors: White ground, varicolored designs Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 23 3/4 " Remarks: Floral motives ]Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28112, described as [ cat card Description: Blouse Materials: cotton, silk Technique: Plain weave, embroidered at neckline Colors: White ground, varicolored designs Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 23 3/4 " Remarks: Floral motives ]

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