Native Name | Tzute |
Object Number | NA5586 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Kiche |
Provenience | Guatemala |
Culture Area | Central American |
Section | American |
Materials | Cotton |
Description | Gauze Technique. Red cotton: five narrow yellow-blue-yellow weft stripes; red warps. Red band woven in gauze technique. Short fringe. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 18 epi, two singles, red cotton, Z twist. Weft: 10 ppi, singles, multistrand. Balanced plain weave and gauze weave. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
Length | 38.1 cm |
Width | 45.72 cm |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.