Huipil

Blouse

66-34-33

From: Guatemala | San Andres Itzapa

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Huipil
Object Number 66-34-33
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cakchiquel
Provenience Guatemala | San Andres Itzapa
Culture Area Central American
Date Made 1930–1951 CE
Section American
Materials Cotton | Silk
Description

Cofradia Huipil. Brown plain weave cotton with groupings of white and red-yellows-green stripes; made of three breadths of cloth; heavily embroidered with silk threads (yellow, purple, magenta, green and blue) in diamond, zig-zag, stylized animal patterns; blue silk used as binding around neck and circular pieces of silk on shoulders and front and back.

Credit Line Gift of Howard H. Tewksbury, 1966
Other Number A-33 - Other Number

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