Huipil
- Museum number:
- 3-32058
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030032058
- Alternate number:
- ACW 3 (previous number (collector's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4798
- Description:
- Huipil, Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala. 3 panels, 3 selvage cloth. Plain weave. Multicolored patterning.
- Donor:
- Anne Connell Wilson
- Collection place:
- Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala
- Verbatim coll. place:
- October 2011
- Production place:
- Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- Kaqchikel
- Maker or artist:
- Francisca Cumez Perez
- Collector:
- Anne Connell Wilson
- Collection date:
- October 2011
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Huipils
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- April 8, 2016
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- width 77 centimeters and length 63 centimeters
- Comment:
- Made by Francisca Cumez Perez, the mother of Bertina Lopez Cumez, ACW weaving teacher, from SCP. 2 paper tags at back neckline (removed): —“ACW #3” —“Huipil, Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala. Purchased from my weaving teacher, Bertina Lopez Cumez, on her visit to San Francisco, CA, in October 2011. Made by her mother. As usual, gorgeous." Huipil, Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala. 3 panels, 3 selvage cloth. Cut warps at one end. Plain weave. Center panel: red warps with some thin yellow and white warp stripes. Both side panels: red warps with thin white warp stripes. Red ground weft. Multicolored patterning, predominately blue & green, in single faced supplementary weft. Notes from conversation with Bertina Lopez Cumez 3/15/17: Bertina described some of the imagery depicted on this huipil as follows: chompipe - a live turkey (sometimes dead turkeys are depicted to symbolize something celebratory as in a dead turkey to be served at a festival) triangles - these symbolize mountains or volcanoes This huipil and others like it take about 6 months to make, working on and off. It could take as little as 3 months if someone was working on it all the time.
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