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Huipil (Mexico), 1900–1950
Holiday huipil made up, front and back, of three strips of undyed cotton cloth banded horizontally at regular intervals with small groups of red and dark blue wool pencil stripes.…
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Huipil (Mexico), 1900–1952
Everyday huipil made up, front and back, of three lengths of undyed cotton plain weave, joined with a loose embroidered basket weave in colored cottons. A shallow toothed border in…
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Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950
Huipil made of three lengths stitched together. Dark blue cotton cloth with double warps and double wefts covered in long red floats. Design of triangles and diamonds in blue, green,…
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Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950
Undyed cotton huipil with triple warps and triple wefts. Group of narrow stripes up center front and back formed by joined inner selvages. Deep band of brocaded and embroidered decoration…
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Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950
Warp-faced plain weave with narrow vertical stripes in varying widths in yellow, brown, mauve and red. Shoulder band of close-set repeat of ruffled bird standing on rosette in mauve and…
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Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950
Undyed cotton cloth ground with triple warps and triple wefts. Deep shoulder decorations of rows of symmetrical trees and turkeys. Rows of smaller birds more widely spaced below. Central stripes…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Long narrow band made from two shorter pieces stitched together. All natural raffia color, in a creamy tone. Three pattern areas of geometric interlacing of alternating bands of textured pile…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Long band composed of three shorter pieces stitched together. All-over embroidery in irregularly interlaced pattern of bands striped in three shades of brown. One selvage present, other long edge cut…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Natural, brown, and rust-red strips of plain woven raffia stitched together on long edges, finished with buttonhole embroidery and raffia pompoms.
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Fragment (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Fragment of bark cloth with a center field of alternating black and natural triangles, with borders on two sides of natural color with a single black stripe in the center.
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