Alaskan Yellow Cedar or Pacific Yellow Cedar grows only on the Pacific coast of North America between Oregon and Alaska. This prized wood is densest of all cedars and has excellent resistance to insects and decay.
Huipil is the word for the colorful, hand-woven, square-cut blouse or dress worn by female descendants of the Maya. It is also the most common garment for indigenous women. The color, design, and style of weaving are unique to each huipil and identify the background and specific village of the weaver. Huipil While huipil have a strong cultural
type of cotton twill cloth, 1943, from American Spanish chino, literally toasted; so called in reference to its usual color. Earlier (via notion of skin color) chino meant child of one white parent, one Indian (fem. Sources seem to disagree on whether the racial sense or the color sense is original.