Scenery
In the Mayan clothing suit of Concepción Chiquirichapa, Quetzaltenango, highlights the headdress that is a canvas woven in waist loom with brocades and applications at the ends, which holds the hair.
In the Mayan clothing suit of Concepción Chiquirichapa, Quetzaltenango, highlights the headdress that is a canvas woven in waist loom with brocades and applications at the ends, which holds the hair. (Photo Press Libre, Juan Diego González)
The headdress is a canvas Waist loom fabric with brocades and applications at the endswhich is used on the head to hold the hair.
The huipil consists of two canvases woven in waist loom, with abundant and colorful brocades, united to the center with a hand embroidered randa. The neck is decorated with an application with embroidery.
The cut is also two canvases, with fine lines in the color urdimbre, apparently light blue, which stands out gently on the dark blue background. The canvases are united with a randa that, in addition to being functional, is also decorative.
The girdle used to secure the cut He was woven with wool threads on a waist loom and presents a black and white stripe design.
Designs
- Linguistic community: Mam
- Daily use suit
The application of the neck in the huipil has floral designs and birds. The body of the Huipil is richly brocked with geometric, floral and zoomorphic motifs.
It highlights, among them, the figure of a long tail bird, that refers to an ancient legend related by people from the communityin a field work carried out a few years ago by the Ixchel Museum research team. According to the story, the Quetzal plumage was granted by a loan: a bird, fascinated by its own suit, wanted to see how it saw and asked Quetzal, who, later, stripped the lazy bird of its beautiful plumage, leaving it very sad, which is reflected in its melancholic song.
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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.
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