Utility Cloth
Tzute
42-35-402
From: Guatemala | Department of Baja Verapaz | San Miguel Chicaj
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Tzute |
| Object Number | 42-35-402 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Quiche |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Baja Verapaz | San Miguel Chicaj |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Date Made | pre 1933 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk |
| Description | Man's cloth used as handkerchief. Red cotton with lengthwise yellow and green compound stripes and crosswise yellow shadow stripes. Embroidered chevrons in red and yellow cotton and green and purple silk. Fringed at both ends. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 52 epi, two singles, Z twist. Weft: 28 ppi, two singles, Z twist. Weave: warp predominant plain weave. Supplementary weft is single faced. One panel. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 53 cm |
| Width | 33.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 323 - Other Number |
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