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Title	Decorated cloth.
Description	This fabric is typical of the bright turquoise huipil (blouse) that the women wear in Santa Catarina Palopó, located in the west-central part of Guatemala. People represent their tribe or town (pueblo) by the clothes that they wear -- each tribe has its own distinct trajes (dress or suits of clothing. Although today's Maya-descended peoples proudly wear their attire as a badge of where they live, the classification actually began as a dress code implemented by Spanish colonial officials. They wanted to be able to identify their subjects by community of origin for tax-collection purposes. Guatemalan textiles are general very tightly woven. This tight weave is achieved using a back-strap loom. A back-strap loom consists of two sticks or bars between which the warps are stretched. One bar is attached to a fixed object, and the other to the weaver usually by means of a strap around the back. The weaver leans back and uses his or her body weight to tension the warp threads of loom. To open spaces between the warp threads, the weaver relaxes tension on the warps and raises the string heddles.
Subject	Textile fabrics--Guatemala--Santa Catarina Palopó--Specimens.; Clothing and dress--Guatemala--Santa Catarina Palopó.; Santa Catarina Palopó (Guatemala)--Social life and customs.
Publisher	[[Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala] ǂb [producer not identified]
Date	[19--?].
Rights	Giertz Education Center @ the Krannert Art Museum