Woman’s shirt (huipil); 3-66 lower part white cotton plain weave; upper part brown cotton brocaded in brown, green, lavender, reds, greens and whites; neck bound and embroidered on black ribbon; approximately 1 m wide, 104 cm long Brown is the natural color of the variety of the cotton.
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
San Cristobal Totonicapan, Totonicapan, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Totonicapan, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
K'iche' and Maya
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb and 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 100 centimeters and length 104 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below.
Loans:
S1975-1976 #2: Fowler Museum of Cultural History (UC Los Angeles) (August 4, 1975–February 4, 1976)