Blouse
Huipil
42-35-521
From: Guatemala | Colotenango | Department of Huehuetenango
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Huipil |
| Object Number | 42-35-521 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Colotenango | Department of Huehuetenango |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Huipil of one wide and two narrow widths with a square neck. White cotton with red stripes and yellow lines. Top, front, back and shoulder strip brocaded in a red mesh pattern on white with brocaded yellow line forming isolated small V's, diamonds and crosses. Red cotton thread - synthetic dye [Robert Carlsen 1984]. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 74 epi, single, Z twist, white and red cotton. Two singles, Z twist, yellow cotton. Weft: 23 ppi, one single, Z twist, white cotton. Warp faced plain weave. Supplementary weft is single faced. Three panels, four selvedges. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 80 cm |
| Width | 125 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 6 - Other Number |
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