Blouse
Huipil
85-2-176
From: Guatemala | San Antonio Aguas Calientes | Department of Sacatepequez
Curatorial Section: American
Native Name | Huipil |
Object Number | 85-2-176 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cakchiquel |
Provenience | Guatemala | San Antonio Aguas Calientes | Department of Sacatepequez |
Culture Area | Central American |
Section | American |
Materials | Cotton |
Description | Cotton huipil. Light blue ground heavily brocaded in horizontal stripes. Neck is bound with light blue tape. Blue tape rosettes on shoulders and at neckline V's. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 52 epi, two singles, Z twist, indigo cotton. Weft: 28 ppi, two singles, Z twist, indigo cotton. Warp is predominantly plain weave. Supplementary weft is single faced. Two panels, four selvedges each. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
Length | 60 cm |
Width | 78 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985 |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.