Utility Cloth
Tzute
85-2-44A
From: Guatemala | Santa Maria Nebaj | Department of Quiche
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Tzute |
| Object Number | 85-2-44A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Ixil |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Santa Maria Nebaj | Department of Quiche |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk | Wool |
| Description | Red cotton with narrow stripes, brocaded in silk, beaded fringe on on end and pompoms on the other, tag: "Does not match rest of outfit" Totonicapan?. Green, yellow, orange, navy and white cotton. Bird and plant figures in silk and wool and cotton. Silk - purple, turquoise, white, orange. Wool - blue, green, magenta. Cotton - yellow, orange. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 48 epi, 2 singles, Z twist, cotton, predominently red with multi colored pin stripes. Weft: 26 ppi, 2 singles, Z twist, red cotton. Warp faced plain weave. Supplemental weft - single faced. 1 panel - 2 selvedges. Made on a backstrap loom." |
| Height | 2 |
| Length | 115.7 |
| Width | 51.5 |
| Credit Line | Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985 |
| Other Number | 44A - Other Number |
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