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Tzute
Object Number 2013.24.172
Display Title Tzute
Descriptions
Object Description Tzut, sampler, back strap loomed, loom finished selvages, white cotton, dark blue vertical and horizontal stripes, creates box for each image, multicolored cotton and wool two faced supplementary weft brocading, variety of images, human, bird, and animal; weaver's mark
Inventory Description Tzute, white ground, blue warp and weft plaid pattern, multicolored animal, human brocade
Classification
  • Tzute
Department Ethnographic
Date 1940-1942 or earlier
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Chimaltenango / <County> / San Juan Comalapa
Central America / Guatemala / Sacatepequez / <County> / Santa Maria de Jesus
Materials Cotton , Dye
Dimensions Overall: 110 × 46 cm (43 5/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.171; 23
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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