Utility Cloth
Tzute
Native Name | Tzute |
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Object Number: | 42-35-385 |
Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Quiche |
Provenience: | Guatemala Department of Baja Verapaz Rabinal |
Culture Area: | Central American |
Date Made: | pre 1933 |
Early Date: | 1928 |
Late Date: | 1933 |
Section: | American |
Materials: | Cotton Silk |
Length: | 80 cm |
Width: | 40 cm |
Credit Line: | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
Other Number: | 312 - Other Number |
Description
Man's cloth. Red cotton with narrow, yellow stripes forming plaid. Embroidered in plant and geometric forms in purple and light green silk and yellow cotton. Corded fringe on both ends.
As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 38 epi, two singles, Z twist. Weft: 22 ppi, two singles, Z twist. Weave: warp predominant plain weave. Supplementary weft is two faced. One panel. Woven on a backstrap loom."
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