The huipil of this suit is wag wet with a single cape thread, With technique known as Pikb’il, similar to gauze or open flat tissue, which gives it a translucent appearance. In all its canvas you can see blank supplementary plot brocades.
The cut, wide and with flight, is made in looming. It is made with cotton threads, and in the lower part it presents a guard of jaspeados designs. It is attached to the waist by means of a bicolor cotton cord. At present, the folds are ironed to maintain intensity.
Designs
- Linguistic community: q’eqchi ‘
- Ceremonial use
The huipil is predominantly white and has handmade embroidered in the neck and sleeves, with Rayón threads. ANDIn the brocadiated figures, a bird is distinguished on a corn plant, which represents an ancient legend linked to the tissues.
This is starring B’alam q’e, a hunter who falls in love with Q’ana Po, the daughter of the great Mr. Tzuultaq’a, and that tries to impress his father with a false goat of leaves and ash, but stumbles and is exposed. Everyone laughs at him who, ashamed, flees. Still in love, ask for help to a hummingbird, that wraps the young man with Ceiba cotton so that he can transform into a small bird. Q’ana Po, amazed at her beauty, asks her father to catch her without hurting her. And so, he keeps it in his thread jícara and, while weaves, he reflects with the loom the story of this beautiful bird.
Fountain: X Balam Q’ué, The Sun Bird, by Herbert Quirin (1984).
The suit is complemented with woven tape with red acrylic threads and topped with colored pompoms, known as tupuy, that is enrolled to the hair and that it is related to the coral snake. They complement the suit a dog and a tissues in waist loom.
This clothing is no longer used by the women of the brotherhoods, who dress in contemporary us. However, even Rab’in K’ob’an (Cobán’s daughter) and po k’ulul uula ‘(host), indigenous queens of the municipality, elected in the prelude to the employer fair, on August 4, dedicated to Santo Domingo de Guzmán.
This is one of the costumes that belong to The collection of IXCHEL Museum of the indigenous suit, whose support for the publication of this series is fundamental, especially that of its director and curator, Violeta Gutiérrez.
- The information on Mayan clothing costumes presented in this space depends on the temporality and context of the documents and people consulted by the Ixchel Museum.
- In the Mayan textile tradition, elements such as trends in each community influence the personal taste of the bearers and creators of this tradition. In some cases, the data is scarce or vague.