Utility Cloth
Tzute
42-35-199
From: Guatemala | San Juan Sacatepequez | Department of Guatemala
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Tzute |
| Object Number | 42-35-199 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cakchiquel |
| Provenience | Guatemala | San Juan Sacatepequez | Department of Guatemala |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Date Made | Pre 1933 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk |
| Description | Woman's cloth. Red with widely spaced lavender and yellow stripes. Rows of embroidered burros, birds and plants in yellow, lavender and white cotton and purple, green, red and yellow silk. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 42 epi, three singles, Z twist, red, yellow and purple cotton. Weft: 16 ppi, four singles, Z twist, red cotton. Warp faced plain weave. Supplementary weft is two faced. One panel, four selvedges. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 62 cm |
| Width | 46 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 120 - Other Number |
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