Blouse
Huipil
42-35-313
From: Guatemala | San Andres Semetabaj | Department of Solola
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Huipil |
| Object Number | 42-35-313 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cakchiquel |
| Provenience | Guatemala | San Andres Semetabaj | Department of Solola |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk |
| Description | Huipil for a woman of lowest class made of two panels without a randa. Neck cut out and bound with commercial figured ribbon with applied points stitched in turquoise silk. Dark blue cotton with brocaded bands of parallel zigzags in rose, dark green, greenish yellow and red cotton and deeprose and lavender silk. Separated by narrow stripes of small links made of red cotton. Red cotton thread-madder dye [Robert Carlsen 1984]. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 42 epi, three singles, Z twist, blue cotton. Weft: 22 ppi, three singles, Z twist, blue cotton. Warp predominantly plain weave. Supplementary weft is single faced. Two panels, four selvedges each. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 80 cm |
| Width | 74 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 241 - Other Number |
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