Huipil: Backstrap-loomed, plain weave. Weft-faced and two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Two pieces joined front, back and side seams with a randa. Garment lined with commercial cloth, machine-stitched.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
San Juan Comalapa, Chimaltenango Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Comalapa, Chimaltenango
Culture or time period:
Kaqchikel
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Silk (floss), and Velvet (fabric weave)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Production date:
1960s
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 76 centimeters and length 56 centimeters
Comment:
MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES: Backstrap-loomed with white cotton singles threads. Creya stripe 2 ply red. Suppl. weft cotton and silk floss. End selvedges loom-finished. Head hole and sleeve openings slit, bound with black velvet. On back border 3" hand-loomed cloth joined to selvedge by hand stitching." CONTEXT OF USE: Number on collector's tag, 51. "Huipil de Comalapa" one of two distinctive types. This one is noted for the "creya"- red bands on shoulders. Difficult to distinguish provenience- either Comalapa or San Jose Poaquil. see Pettersen, 196, 200. Huipil is lined with cloth of a sugar sack. CONSERVATION: good, yet suppl. weft brocading worn, some holes;