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Tzute, women's multipurpose headcloth, white with red and blue stripes at edges, multicolored birds, animals, monkeys, dots, and geometrics
Tzute, women's multipurpose headcloth, white with red and blue stripes at edges, multicolored birds, animals, monkeys, dots, and geometrics
Object Number 2013.24.93
Display Title Tzute, women's multipurpose headcloth, white with red and blue stripes at edges, multicolored birds, animals, monkeys, dots, and geometrics
Descriptions
Object Description Women's tzut, one piece, backstrap loomed, one end loom finished, other end warps cut and hemmed, white cotton with red and dark blue vertical stripes, colored wefts, multicolored cotton and sedalina single faced supplementary weft brocade, bird, animals, geometric images, and dots, monkey images in borders.
Inventory Description Tzute, women's multipurpose headcloth, white cotton with red and blue cotton stripes at edges, cotton and sedalina single faced supplementary weft brocade of red, blue, yellow, and green birds, animals, monkeys, dots, and geometrics
Classification
  • Tzute
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Escuintla / <County> / Palin
Materials Dye , Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 88 × 69 cm (34 5/8 × 27 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.93
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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