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Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, red cotton, with multicolored stripes and silk humans, birds, and floral images, fringes at both ends
Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, red cotton, with multicolored stripes and silk humans, birds, and floral images, fringes at both ends
Object Number 2013.24.90
Display Title Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, red cotton, with multicolored stripes and silk humans, birds, and floral images, fringes at both ends
Descriptions
Object Description Woman's tzut, one piece, backstrap loomed, warps cut, create fringes on both ends, red cotton and with multicolored cotton vertical stripes, and multicolored silk wefts create a plaid effect, multicolored silk single faced supplementary weft brocading, human, bird, floral images. Light hand.
Inventory Description Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, red cotton, with multicolored stripes and silk single faced single weft brocading of humans, birds, and floral images, fringes on both sides
Classification
  • Tzute
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / El Quiche / <County> / Nebaj
Materials Cotton , Dye , Silk
Dimensions Overall: 70 × 112 cm (27 9/16 × 44 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.90
Credit Line Gift of Mary Dodge Cobb in memory of Bertha Sanford (Wiener) Dodge and Carroll William Dodge, who together collected these Guatemalan textiles
Provenance
Collector Bertha Sanford Dodge
Collector Carroll William Dodge
Donor Donated by Mary Dodge Cobb

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