Blouse
Huipil
85-2-217
From: Guatemala | San Pedro Necta | Department of Huehuetenango
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Huipil |
| Object Number | 85-2-217 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | San Pedro Necta | Department of Huehuetenango |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Iconography | Geometric Pattern |
| Description | Huipil of one panel. White cotton with red, blue, yellow, green and orange stripes. Geometric motifs brocaded in green, orange, purple, blue and red. Neck and armhole openings embroidered with purple, yellow, blue and green cotton. Warp stripes used horizontally instead of vertically. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 46 epi, two singles, Z twist, red and white cotton, all other warp colors are two ply cotton. Weft: 18 ppi, two singles, Z twist, white cotton. Warp faced plain weave. Supplementary weft is single faced with embroidery. One panel, two selvedges." |
| Length | 50 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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