Man’s Shirt (Guatemala), 1925–50

Long straight shirt made of two lengths of heavy white cotton with thin red stripes (two warps, three wefts). Very short narrow sleeves of red cloth with two wide bands of geometrical patterning in orange, dark green, lavender and white. Neck opening slit down front. Deep warp fringe on back bottom edge of shirt. Double cord edging on front bottom edge.

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