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Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, white cotton with bands of multicolored geometric designs, macrame tassels on both ends
Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, white cotton with bands of multicolored geometric designs, macrame tassels on both ends
Object Number 2013.24.57
Display Title Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, white cotton with bands of multicolored geometric designs, macrame tassels on both ends
Descriptions
Object Description Tzut or servilleta, backstrap or floor loomed, one piece, selvages cut, white macrame fringe with tassels added to both ends, white cotton, multicolored cotton two faced supplementary weft brocading, geometric designs
Inventory Description Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, white cotton with bands of multicolored bands of red, yelllow, and dark blue geometric designs, macrame tassels at both ends
Classification
  • Tzute
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Quetzaltenango / <County> / Concepcion Chiquirichapa
Materials Cotton , Dye
Dimensions Overall: 54 × 102 cm (21 1/4 × 40 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.57
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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