Details

Subject(s)

• Ceremonial objects—Mexico [Browse]
• Mayas—Clothing and dress [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• huipils [Browse]

Notes

A Maya (Tzotzil) huipil, or ceremonial shirt, from Magdalenas, Chiapas, Mexico, made with a woven symbolic design of mythological importance, accompanied by a description by Walter F. Morris, Jr. Garment, approx. 34” x 36”, folded, placed in box (20" x 20" x 2").

Source acquisition

Princeton copy 1 Gift; Estate of Thomas Baird; 1996.

Cite as

Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 18, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1340439699

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