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2012.104.29

Blouse huipil, with purple hand embroidery. [FB 05/03/2014]

2012.104.29

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Collection type
Object
Description
Blouse huipil, with purple hand embroidery. [FB 05/03/2014]
Long description
Blouse huipil, with purple hand embroidery. White cotton huipil with round neck, made from two pieces of woven cotton fabric, stitched together with white cotton thread. Decorated with hand embroidery of floral motifs in a semicircle around the neck and in small rectangular areas around the armholes, using bright purple thread only. The designs are embroidered in satin stitch, and the background filled in with a knotted or looping stitch – possibly French knots. [FB 05/03/2014]
Geographical reference
Guatemala
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Guatemala
Totonicapán department San Andres Xecul
Cultural groups
Maya
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector Dai Williams
PRM source Dai Williams
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1980
Date collected
By 1980
Acquisition information
Donated: 03/07/2013
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Stitched, Process Dyed, Process Embroidered
Dimensions
Height: max 750 mm, Width: max 113 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2012.104.29 Other numbers: 88101 G810 A88 Q110 115
Research and responses

Notes, names of villages given by donor: "115. Huipile de luto (mourning) San Andres Xecul. Purple, not worn." [FB 06/11/2013]

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