Costume des Femmes Métis a Merida

Depicts a Yucatan woman wearing traditional regional attire

Visual Details

Description

A woman stands elegantly dressed in a traditional white “huipil” with a long rosary necklace. The background features a stone cross with a skull on the left and a traditional thatched Maya hut on the right

The Subject

Merida ethnography, Mestizo culture, traditional Mexican clothing

Technical Specifications

Beer (Lithographer), Jean-Frédéric Waldeck (Drawer)
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck
Lithograph
1838 (Stone prepared in 1837)
Voyage Pittoresque et Archéologique dans la province d’Yucatan
Plate IV (Pl. IV)
“COSTUME DES FEMMES MÉTIS A MERIDA”; “Lith. par Beer d’après les dessins de Mr. Waldeck”
Not specified in source
Not specified in source
Paris, France (Lemercier, Benard et Cie)

Historical Significance

Essential for Mexican ethnography as it documents the mestizo clothing in Merida shortly after independence

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