Guipil" of woman; white cotton basket weave with twilled red, green and yellow stripes; light blue plain weave brocaded with stripe colors; approximately 1 m wide, 1 m 5 cm long; For the color red, the fiber is cotton and the dye result is madder
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
San Cristobal Totonicapan, Totonicapan, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Totonicapan, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
K'iche' and Maya
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb and 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 105 centimeters and width 100 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archive in museum library. see acc, envelope Also see references below