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Huipil

85-2-171

From: Guatemala | San Antonio Aguas Calientes | Department of Sacatepequez

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Huipil
Object Number 85-2-171
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cakchiquel
Provenience Guatemala | San Antonio Aguas Calientes | Department of Sacatepequez
Culture Area Central American
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Unfinished cotton huipil. Red ground heavily brocaded in geometric designs of purple, green, blue, yellow, white and red.

As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 52 epi, two singles, Z twist, red cotton. Weft: 27 ppi, two singles, Z twist, red cotton. Warp is predominantly plain weave. Supplementary weft is single faced. Two panels, three selvedges each. Woven on a backstrap loom."

Length 115 cm
Width 72 cm
Credit Line Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985

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