Huipil
- Museum number:
- 3-130
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000130
- Alternate number:
- 130 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.47 and Acc.61
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Woman’s garment or huipil; sleeves and bodice only; white cotton, gauzy weave, plain weave with few basket weave stripes; brocaded in greens, red and yellow; approximately 50 cm long, 104 cm wide across bottom; for the color red, the fiber is cotton and the dye result is madder; for the color blue the fiber is cotton and the dye result is probable indigo
- Donor:
- Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Rabinal, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- Achi and Maya
- Collector:
- Gustavus A. Eisen
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Alizarin (natural colorant) and Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- October 20, 1902
- Department:
- Cat. 3 - Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Area
- Dimensions:
- length 50 centimeters and width 104 centimeters
- Comment:
- See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below.
- Images:
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