This ancient ceramic figurine shows a Zapotec woman from Oaxaca wearing a garment that looks like a quechquemitl. It may be, or it could be a huipil that she is wearing without placing her arms through the arm holes. In some coastal Mixtec villages today, huipils arwe worn in just this manner

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The woman in this detail of one of Diego Rivera's National Palace murals is shown wearing a cape called a quechquemitl. This garment dates back to ancient times but is still worn today in areas of central and northeastern Mexico

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This painting shows a couple in a cornfield planting maize. The man is using a planting tool that is known as a "coa" by many indigenous people. He has the maize seeds in the gourd tied to his waist. Native people still plant maize this way in many parts of Mexico. This scene takes place in the ancient past when men still wore loincloths. The woman is wearing a wraparound skirt (enredo) that is patterned on the pozahuanco skirts still worn today by Mixtec women on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca.

Her upper garment is a quechquemitl, a closed shoulder cape that is not wore in Oaxaca today, but was worn in the ancient past. Today, quechquemitls are worn by women in parts of central and northern Mexico.

Mural by Arturo Bustos Garcia, Museo del Palacio, Oaxaca Mexico

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This beautiful quechquemitl belongs to the collection of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. It is attributed to the Nahua community of Atla in the state of Puebla, Mexico.

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Magnificent hand woven quechquemitl cape from the Nahua community of Atla, Puebla

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