Blouse
Huipil
42-35-155
From: Guatemala | Mixco | Department of Guatemala
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Huipil |
| Object Number | 42-35-155 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Pocomam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Mixco | Department of Guatemala |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk |
| Description | White, cotton huipil in one panel. Upper section has dark blue and white weft stripes. Brocaded in band of zigzag designs in blue-black, brown, red, cerise and yellow cotton and green and purple silk. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 32 epi, three singles, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 20 ppi, three singles, Z twist, white cotton. Warp is predominantly plain weave. Supplementary weft is two faced. One panel, four selvedges each. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 130 cm |
| Width | 48 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 92 - Other Number |
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