Utility Cloth
Chivo
85-2-108B
From: Guatemala | Mixco | Department of Guatemala
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Chivo |
| Object Number | 85-2-108B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Pocomam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Mixco | Department of Guatemala |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | White cotton ground. Weft threads form fringed stripes in red, white and blue. Cloth used for wrapping tortillas. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 24 epi, three singles, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 26 ppi, three singles, Z twist, white cotton. Balanced plain weave. Supplementary weft: loops, red, blue and white cotton, two faced. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 71 cm |
| Width | 66 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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