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Tzute, women's multipurpose headcloth, white with red and purple vertical stripes at two edges, multicolored birds, dots, geometrics, and large double-headed eagles
Tzute, women's multipurpose headcloth, white with red and purple vertical stripes at two edges, multicolored birds, dots, geometrics, and large double-headed eagles
Object Number 2013.24.110
Display Title Tzute, women's multipurpose headcloth, white with red and purple vertical stripes at two edges, multicolored birds, dots, geometrics, and large double-headed eagles
Descriptions
Object Description Woman's tzut, large, one piece, backstrap loomed, one end loomed finished, other end warps cut and hemmed, white and red cotton, red vertical stripes on sides, some red wefts too, multicolored cotton two faced supplementary weft brocade, dotes [?], birds, geometric, and double headed eagles.
Inventory Description Tzute, women's multipurpose headcloth, white cotton with red and purple cotton vertical stripes at two edges, cotton two faced supplementary weft brocade of red, yellow, blue, and green birds, dots, geometrics, and large double-headed eagles
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: 78 × 75 cm (30 11/16 × 29 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.110
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
Owner Bertha Sanford Dodge
Owner Carroll William Dodge
Collector Lilly de Jongh Osborn (-1950s)
Donor Donated by Mary Dodge Cobb

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