Context (Display)
Exhibited in Looms of our Grandmothers: Picb'il textiles from Guatemala, 16 May – 6 October 2019.
Label noted 'This cotton huipil was woven for the Museum so that visitors could see that Q’eqchi’ Maya women continue to weave today. From the base, the designs are Star, Women holding hands, Comb, Big Eyed Bird, Dog Footprint and Pacaya Leaf.'

Event Date 6/10/2019
Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
Community produced a statement of intent for the museum to hold along with textiles produced for the museum collection. Statement is signed by all members of the women's leadership committee of Santa Maria de Chirripur and is held in the museum archive.  
Event Date 18/3/2019
Author: rachel hand

Context (Field collection)
Purchased by Callie Vandewiele during her PhD field reserach as part of a Crowther-Beynon Grant from the womens committee in the coffee cooperative Santa Maria de Chirripur in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala. Vandewiele worked with the cooperative leadership committee to get permission for the collection and the huipil was woven by Josefa Xi Coy de Quiix who was asked by the community to create a demonstration huipil featuring a wide range of brocade patterns and to reflect the weaving style of the community in the work.
Event Date 18/3/2019
Author: rachel hand

Context (Production / use)
Traditional Q'eqchi' woman's blouse. Worn for both day-to-day work and for special events. Regular use has decreased in the region as women struggle to afford the cost of hand-woven huipils, however when able women preferentially purchase and use picb'il huipils in comparison to other hand-woven or mass produced huipils. Local communities widely believe that the picb'il huipil is the 'oldest' and 'most traditional' style still woven and worn in the region. Huipil is similar to 1962.151 held in the MAA collection since 1962 and collected by (NAME).

Event Date 18/3/2019
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Hand-woven white cotton huipil with brocade design work. Woven in three panels in the picb'il style on a single headle backstrap loom in the community of Santa Maria de Chirripur, in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala. Rectangular in shape,with collar cut and hand finished. Edges joined to form sleeves, also hand finished. Selvage edges at bottom of garment left untrimmed or hemmed (as is traditional). Panels joined with traditional hand-stitched 'roosters footprint' stitch pattern. Inlaid design features rows of demonstration patterns.
Front: from bottom to shoulder: Star, Women holding hands, Pacaya Leaves, 'pato de perro' (dog footprint), big eyed bird, comb, star, women holding hands, pacaya leaf, 'pato de perro'.
On shoulder: 'pato do perro'
Back: From shoulder to bottom: Big eyed bird, comb, star, women holding hands, pacay leaf, 'pato de perro' big eyed bird, comb, women holding hands, star.
Produced entirely using number 22 white cotton thread produced in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Event Date 18/3/2019
Author: rachel hand

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6032 | Freezing
Event Date 2/10/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Physical description)
P'ot. Woman's blouse produced entirely from using number 22 white cotton thread produced in San Salvador. Woven in three panels in the picb'il style on a single headle backstrap loom in the community of Santa Maria de Chirripur, in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala. Rectangular in shape,with collar cut and hand finished. The design includes star, women holding hands, Pacaya Leaves, 'pato de perro' (dog footprint), big eyed bird, comb.
Event Date 16/9/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc