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Open woven top for a woman with wool embroidery and decorated with ribbon and pailettes
White cotton, open woven poncho-like quechquemitl that is worn over a blouse or huipil. Depending on the region and culture, the points are either worn on the belly or over the arms. According to collector Bodil Christensen it is a pre-Columbian garment, which can be deduced from archeological findings (museum information). Originally, the quechquemitl was reserved for the highest social class; ot…
Type of item
- Object Type: blouse
- blouse
- Blouse
Date
- voor 1964
Medium
- Material: cotton
- cotton (fiber)
- Cotton
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1964
Provenance
- 1964-01-24
- Aankoop
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/103957
Format
- Technique: weaving techniques
- textile techniques
- Weave
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- white
- wax
- ambergris
- gauze
- wool (hair material)
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z