Huipil
- Museum number:
- 3-48
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000048
- Alternate number:
- 48 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.47 and Acc.61
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Guipil" of woman; 3-48 plain weave; brocade, twill and basket weave; white cotton with multicolor brocade and twill stripes; neck bound with ribbon and velveteen and embroidered; sewn on by machine; approximately 90 cm wide, 105 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, Totonicapan, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- K'iche'
- Collector:
- Gustavus A. Eisen
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile), Silk (floss), and Velvet (fabric weave)
- 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 90 centimeters and length 105 centimeters
- Comment:
- See Eisen archive in museum library. Also see references below
- Images:
- Legacy documentation: