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Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, white cotton with thick bands of red and black geometric designs
Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, white cotton with thick bands of red and black geometric designs
Object Number 2013.24.56
Display Title Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, white cotton with thick bands of red and black geometric designs
Descriptions
Object Description Tzut or servilleta, backstrap or floor loomed, one piece, selvages cut and hemmed, white cotton, black and red cotton two faced supplementary weft brocading, geometric designs
Inventory Description Tzute, women's multipurpose cloth, white cotton with thick bands of red and black geometric designs
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: 66 × 59 cm (26 × 23 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.56; 70
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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