Huipil

Museum number:
3-141
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
141 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
Woman'€™s over garment or guipil (White cotton basket weave animal figures brocaded all over garment, red and purple predominant. Neck embroidered.) woman's For the color purple the fiber is cotton and the dye result is purpura p. For the red color the fiber is cotton
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala Dept, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
San Juan, Guatemala, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Kaqchikel
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 125 centimeters and length 66 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Huipil, accession number 3-141, described as Woman'€™s over garment or guipil (White cotton basket weave animal figures brocaded all over garment, red and purple predominant. Neck embroidered.) woman's For the color purple the fiber is cotton and the dye result is purpura p. For the red color the fiber is cottonHearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Huipil, accession number 3-141, described as Woman'€™s over garment or guipil (White cotton basket weave animal figures brocaded all over garment, red and purple predominant. Neck embroidered.) woman's For the color purple the fiber is cotton and the dye result is purpura p. For the red color the fiber is cottonHearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Huipil, accession number 3-141, described as Woman'€™s over garment or guipil (White cotton basket weave animal figures brocaded all over garment, red and purple predominant. Neck embroidered.) woman's For the color purple the fiber is cotton and the dye result is purpura p. For the red color the fiber is cottonHearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Huipil, accession number 3-141, described as Woman'€™s over garment or guipil (White cotton basket weave animal figures brocaded all over garment, red and purple predominant. Neck embroidered.) woman's For the color purple the fiber is cotton and the dye result is purpura p. For the red color the fiber is cotton
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-141, described as Woman'€™s over garment or guipil (White cotton basket weave animal figures brocaded all over garment, red and purple predominant. Neck embroidered.) woman's For the color purple the fiber is cotton and the dye result is purpura p. For the red color the fiber is cottonDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-141, described as Woman'€™s over garment or guipil (White cotton basket weave animal figures brocaded all over garment, red and purple predominant. Neck embroidered.) woman's For the color purple the fiber is cotton and the dye result is purpura p. For the red color the fiber is cotton

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