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Tzute, multipurpose cloth, white with multicolored animals in horizontal bands across surface, fringed at both ends
Tzute, multipurpose cloth, white with multicolored animals in horizontal bands across surface, fringed at both ends
Object Number 2013.24.10
Display Title Tzute, multipurpose cloth, white with multicolored animals in horizontal bands across surface, fringed at both ends
Descriptions
Object Description Tzut, backstrap loomed, one piece, white cotton, warps cut, create fringes on both ends, multicolored cotton two faced supplementary weft brocading, two and three legged images.
Inventory Description Tzute, multipurpose cloth, white cotton with yellow, pink, purple, and green cotton two faced supplementary weft brocade two- and three-legged animals in horizontal bands across surface, fringed at both ends
Classification
  • Tzute
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Sacatepequez / <County> / Santo Domingo Xenacoj
Materials Dye , Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 68 × 70 cm (26 3/4 × 27 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.10; 13
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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