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HUIPILES AND THE HIGHLAND MAYA OF GUATEMALA The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology BROWN At one time, each community or language-group made its own specific huipil designs. Without saying a word, a woman’s huipil could tell you which community she came from. Huipil designs can include geometric shapes, stars and suns, and natural objects such as flowers, birds, and butterflies. Since the Highland Maya make their living by farming, natural symbols like the sun are very important to them. The huipil designs may have religious meaning as well. The head hole may represent the sun and the center of the universe. When a woman puts on her huipil, she places herself in the center of that universe, surrounded by symbols of her family and community — in short, the symbols that are important to her and to her culture. Highland Maya women continue to make and wear huipiles and other traditional clothes, called traje (trah-hey), today, even with the availability of European-style clothing. Thousands of Highland Maya people were affected by the civil wars in Guatemala that lasted from 1960 to 1996. The Guatemalan army killed many Mayan people who were thought to be helping the rebels. In the 1980s, the army targeted women wearing huipiles with symbols that associated them with communities where the army thought rebels were based. To protect themselves, many Maya women disguised the symbols on their huipiles so that the army could not tell which communities they were from. Close-up of a huipil from The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s collection; Photograph by Sarah Philbrick 18
HUIPILES AND THE HIGHLAND MAYA OF GUATEMALA Huipiles from The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s collection; photographs by Sarah Philbrick The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology BROWN Some examples of Maya Huipiles from the Haffenreffer Museum’s collection 19
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