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Guatemalan Huipil

Chichicastenango, K’iche’ people, Guatemala (map), d. early/mid-20th c.

Cotton, silk, and wool

32” w x 60” l (81 x 79 cm)

Condition: Minor wear to neck lining (loss of black)

SOLD

Collected in Guatemala around 1970. Vide Rowe (1981: 89, fig. 69) for a very similar 1930s example.

REFERENCES

Rowe, Ann Pollard. A Century of Change in Guatemalan Textiles. New York: Center for

Inter-American Relations, 1981.

 
 
 
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