Blouse
Huipil
2014-19-77
From: Guatemala | Department of Huehuetenango | Todos Santos Cuchumatan
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Huipil |
| Object Number | 2014-19-77 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Huehuetenango | Todos Santos Cuchumatan |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Blouse of six panels of 3.5 cm wide vertical red and white striped cotton ground cloth. The red stripes have blue and orange embroidery along the edges and center of the stripe. Multicolored supplementary weft, predominantly orange and green, in diamond and chevron patterns in horizontal stripes that alternates with solid red supplementary weft covers the top half of the blouse, front and back. Neck edge circled by 8 cm white cotton groundcloth embroidered with black and pink vertical winding stripes. Four blue circles embroidered on the white cotton match the bluie embroidered just aroud the neck edge. Edges sewn closed. |
| Length | 75.5 cm |
| Width | 88.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Louis Weinstock and Rosa Portell-Weinstock, 2014 |
| Other Number | L-699-77 - Old Loan Number |
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