Utility Cloth
Tzute
85-2-153
From: Guatemala | Department of Quiche | Nebaj
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Tzute |
| Object Number | 85-2-153 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Ixil |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Quiche | Nebaj |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk |
| Description | Cotton with some silk embroidery, bird, tree and figure designs, white cord fringe on two ends. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 15 epi, 2 ply, white cotton. Weft: 56 ppi, 2 singles, Z twist, cotton (purple, red, green, white, blue, pink, orange and maroon). Supplemental weft - two faced in cotton - white, green, purple, dark blue cotton and rust silk. 1 panel - 2 selvedges. Made on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 27 cm |
| Width | 32 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985 |
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