Utility Cloth
Tzute
42-35-384
From: Guatemala | Department of Baja Verapaz | Rabinal
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Tzute |
| Object Number | 42-35-384 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Pocomchi |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Baja Verapaz | Rabinal |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Date Made | pre 1933 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk |
| Description | Woman's cloth for wrapping food. White cotton in narrow bands alternating close and open weave. Plaided with red and yellow. Slightly brocaded with red and yellow cotton and light blue silk. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 40 epi, single, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 24 ppi, single and double, Z twist, white, red and yellow cotton. Balanced plain weave. Supplementary weft is double faced. One panel, four selvedges. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 96 cm |
| Width | 60 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 311 - Other Number |
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