Huipil

Museum number:

3-130

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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:

width 104 centimeters and length 50 centimeters

Comment:

See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below.

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