Textiles

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Huipil
Community
Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life, Textiles and Weaving
Summary
Chinantec. Ojitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico. Plant Material: Cotton, Seed Fiber. Unidentified Material: Ribbon. Donald and Dorothy Cordry Collection.
Chinantec Women in Everyday Attire
Community
Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life, Textiles and Weaving
Summary
A group of Chinantec women of San Felipe Usila, Oaxaca.
Mestizo Native Girl in Fiesta Dress
Community
Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life, Textiles and Weaving
Summary
The fiesta costume, showing the huipil grande as worn for gala occasions. Tehuantepec, Oaxaca.
Huipil de Tapar
Community
Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life, Textiles and Weaving
Summary
Woman wearing "huipil de tapar" folded for daily use.
Johni Lou and Dorothy Kilcrease
Community
Photograph Collection
Category
Community Life and Family Life
Summary
Johni Lou and Dororthy Kilcrease play together outside as the younger child sits atop a chair with a Navajo blanket draped over it. Both are the granddaughters of John and Louisa Wetherill.