Huipil

Museum number:
3-242
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
242 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
Huipil or woman’s over garment. (Off-white cotton, 3 and 2 strand basketweave. Dark blue cotton brocaded designs. No hole for head, sides not stitched together. 1 m 30 cm x 94 cm.)
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
San Pedro Sacatepéquez, Guatemala Dept, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Mixco, Guatemala, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Maya and Poqomam
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 95 centimeters and length 129 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archives in museum library. See also p. 101 and 102 Schevill; see references below. Multiple typed and handwritten corrections on card catalog for "location". Schevill attributes it to Mixco. Cat card says purchased in Mixco? from San Pedro Sacatapequez.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-242, described as Huipil or woman’s over garment. (Off-white cotton, 3 and 2 strand basketweave. Dark blue cotton brocaded designs. No hole for head, sides not stitched together. 1 m 30 cm x 94 cm.)Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-242, described as Huipil or woman’s over garment. (Off-white cotton, 3 and 2 strand basketweave. Dark blue cotton brocaded designs. No hole for head, sides not stitched together. 1 m 30 cm x 94 cm.)Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Huipil, accession number 3-242, described as Huipil or woman’s over garment. (Off-white cotton, 3 and 2 strand basketweave. Dark blue cotton brocaded designs. No hole for head, sides not stitched together. 1 m 30 cm x 94 cm.)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-242, described as Huipil or woman’s over garment. (Off-white cotton, 3 and 2 strand basketweave. Dark blue cotton brocaded designs. No hole for head, sides not stitched together. 1 m 30 cm x 94 cm.)

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