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Tzute, men's multipurpose cloth, dark blue cloth with pink vertical stripes, multicolored two and four legged animals, fringes at both ends
Tzute, men's multipurpose cloth, dark blue cloth with pink vertical stripes, multicolored two and four legged animals, fringes at both ends
Object Number 2013.24.81
Display Title Tzute, men's multipurpose cloth, dark blue cloth with pink vertical stripes, multicolored two and four legged animals, fringes at both ends
Descriptions
Object Description Man's tzut, one piece, back strap loomed, warps cut and twisted, indigo dyed cotton with narrow untwisted nylon pink vertical stripes, multicolored silk and nylon two faced supplementary weft brocading, two and four legged animals, very light hand
Inventory Description Tzute, men's multipurpose cloth, dark blue ccotton with nylon pink vertical stripes, multicolored silk and nylon two faced supplementary weft brocade of two and four legged animals, fringes at both ends
Classification
  • Tzute
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Solola / <County> / Nahuala
Materials Dye , Cotton , Silk , Nylon , Indigo dye
Dimensions Overall: 73 × 69 cm (28 3/4 × 27 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.81
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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