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Servilleta, small multipurpose cloth, one piece, white with multicolored birds, flowers, and humans
Servilleta, small multipurpose cloth, one piece, white with multicolored birds, flowers, and humans
Object Number 2013.24.73
Display Title Servilleta, small multipurpose cloth, one piece, white with multicolored birds, flowers, and humans
Descriptions
Object Description Servilleta, one piece, back strap loomed, loomed finished selvages, white cotton, multicolored cotton single and double faced supplementary weft brocading, bird, flowers, human images.
Inventory Description Servilleta, small multipurpose cloth, one piece, white cotton with red, blue, purple, green, and yellow single and double faced supplementary weft brocade birds, flowers, and humans
Classification
  • Tzute
Department Ethnographic
Date 1941-1943 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Sacatepequez / <County> / San Antonio Aguas Calientes
Materials Dye , Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 75 × 47 cm (29 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.73
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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