Blouse
Huipil
42-35-224
From: Guatemala | Department of Guatemala
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Huipil |
| Object Number | 42-35-224 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cakchiquel | Pocomam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Guatemala |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk |
| Description | Huipil of one piece. White with bands of blue-black weft threads marking off the bands of blue-black cotton brocade showing animals, women (paper dolls), double animals, and unidentified figures. Designs are broken by lines of lavender cotton and cerise silk. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 41 epi, three singles, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 20 ppi, three singles, Z twist. Supplementary weft is two faced. Warp is predominantly plain weave. One panel, four selvedges. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 130 cm |
| Width | 47 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 145-A - Other Number |
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