Utility Cloth
Tzute
42-35-405
From: Guatemala | Palin | Department of Escuintla
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 42-35-405 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Pipil |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Palin | Department of Escuintla |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk |
| Technique | Embroidered |
| Iconography | Bird | Eagle | Sun |
| Description | White cotton embroidered with chain and zigzag borders all around. Six rows of birds with two in center on a branch. Double headed eagle with sun above. Background of dots. All brocading in soft red, lavender, yellow, green, and blue cotton. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 30 epi, two ply, white cotton. Weft: 20 ppi, two ply, white cotton. Balanced plain weave. Supplementary weft is two faced. One panel, three selvedges. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 73 cm |
| Width | 79 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
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