Huipil
Guatemala huipil
Silk embroidered designs on striped red cotton backstrap woven ground.
depicts the Mayan Calendar and the glyphs for the ‘nawaales’, spirit companions, for each day.
Woven by members of KEMO’N PATZUN, a cooperative of women near Chimaltenango.
- Object: Huipil
- Artist: -
- Circa: July, 2003
- Dimensions: -
- Culture Area: mesoamerica / Guatemala
- Cultural Group: Maya / Patzun, Chimaltenango
- Cultural Context: -
- Donor: Jeanne Sloane
- Catalog #: 112.041