Blouse
Huipil
85-2-300
From: Guatemala | Santiago Sacatepequez | Department of Sacatepequez
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Huipil |
| Object Number | 85-2-300 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cakchiquel |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Santiago Sacatepequez | Department of Sacatepequez |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Cotton huipil in two panels. White ground with red stripes. Heavily brocaded in geometric designs. Unfinished. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 55 epi, three singles, Z twist, white and red cotton. Weft: 14 ppi, five singles, Z twist, white cotton. Warp faced plain weave. Supplementary weft is single faced. Two panels, four selvedges each. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 137 cm |
| Width | 91 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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