Blouse, cotton; short sleeves; heavily beaded yoke and shoulders (both sides) in varicolored glass beads in floral design; w. across sleeves 58.5 cm., 1.62 cm.
Donor:
John Barr Tompkins
Collection place:
San Pablito, Puebla, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Otomi
Collector:
John Barr Tompkins
Collection date:
April 1939
Materials:
Glass (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Huipils
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1973
Context of use:
Blouse, coll. from widow of "brujo" (was her own garment) The type of bead embroidery used in this blouse where the cloth is not smocked and the beads cover the background solidly is done in Nahuatl speaking villages in the Huasteca of Hidalgo and Veracruz, especially in the area of Chicontepec, Veracruz. (fide Alejandro de Avila Blomberg, 1984). [hand written on card: "this type of blouse is not worn in San Pablito"]