[ cat card Description: Blouse, Huipil Materials: Cotton, wool, rayon, Technique: Handweaving, applique, chain stitch emb., Brocade Colors: Brown, multicolor Dimensions: 33" wide, 28" long Remarks: Huipil, handwoven on backstrap loom. Made of 3 strips of brown cotton handsewn with black thread. Round head hole cut out of center strip. Shoulders, center front and back yoke area covered w. wool brocaded floral designs in multicolored on dk. brown background. Cost $50.00 $2.50 tax. Neck decorated with black rayon applique outlined by bright red and dk red chain stitch. Bottom irregular in length, woven finish.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala, Chichicastenango
Culture or time period:
Mayan
Materials:
Cotton (textile) (embroid, applique, brocade), Rayon, and Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Production date:
1967
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 33 inches and length 25 inches
Comment:
Collector: M. Anneberg Gallery "The Jewelry Shop" 2721 Hyde St S.F. Donor: Departmental purchase
Loans:
S1983-1984 #53b: University of California, Davis/Pat Hickman (May 9, 1984–May 29, 1984) and S1984-1985 #28: University of California, Davis/Univ. of Hawaii, UC Davis, Richmond Art Center (January 18, 1985–March 13, 1985)