Huipil

Museum number:
3-28084
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Alternate number:
1417 (previous number (Design Dept.)) and LMO 108 (previous number (Lila M. O'Neale), LMO cat #)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.03
Description:
Material for a girl’s huipil. Cotton. Plain weave (treadle loom), brocaded. Varicolored. 25 inches x 24 inches See Fig. 101b, Textiles of Highland Guatemala
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Lila Morris O'Neale
Collection place:
Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala,Coban
Culture or time period:
Mayan
Collection date:
1936
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
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 63 centimeters and width 60 centimeters
Comment:
per text Fig 101b woven in " typical colonial coverlet pattern
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28084, described as Material for a girl’s huipil. Cotton. Plain weave (treadle loom), brocaded. Varicolored. 25 inches x 24 inches See Fig. 101b, Textiles of Highland Guatemala
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28084, described as Material for a girl’s huipil. Cotton. Plain weave (treadle loom), brocaded. Varicolored. 25 inches x 24 inches See Fig. 101b, Textiles of Highland GuatemalaDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-28084, described as Material for a girl’s huipil. Cotton. Plain weave (treadle loom), brocaded. Varicolored. 25 inches x 24 inches See Fig. 101b, Textiles of Highland Guatemala

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