Huipil
- Museum number:
- 3-115
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000115
- Alternate number:
- 115 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.47 and Acc.61
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Woman’s shirt or huipil; off-white plain weave cotton with red, orange and green vertical stripes and brocaded horizontal stripes at shoulder area; lower 10 cm in back basket weave; “collar” of white commercial cotton, appliqued; 95 cm long, 104 cm across bottom Remarks: Fabric almost identical to cuff and collar of 3-114
- Donor:
- Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Todos Santos Cuchumatan, Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Todos Santos, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- Mam and Maya
- Collector:
- Gustavus A. Eisen
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb and 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- October 20, 1902
- Department:
- Cat. 3 - Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Area
- Dimensions:
- width 98 centimeters and length 98 centimeters
- Comment:
- See Eisen archive in museum library. See acc. envelope. See also references below
- Images:
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