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Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, green cotton, with multicolored cotton and silk stripes and female figures
Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, green cotton, with multicolored cotton and silk stripes and female figures
Object Number 2013.24.103
Display Title Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, green cotton, with multicolored cotton and silk stripes and female figures
Descriptions
Object Description Woman's tzut, one piece, back strap loomed, loom finished selvages, unusual green like 2013.24.117, multicolored cotton and silk two faced supplementary weft brocading, multicolored cotton weft horizontal bands, female images.
Inventory Description Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, green cotton, with single and two faced supplementary weft brocade of multicolored cotton and silk stripes and female figures
Classification
  • Tzute
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Quetzaltenango / <County> / Quetzaltenango
Materials Cotton , Dye , Silk
Dimensions Overall: 44 × 67 cm (17 5/16 × 26 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.103
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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