Utility Cloth
Tzute
85-2-297
From: Guatemala | San Pedro La Laguna | Department of Solola
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Tzute |
| Object Number | 85-2-297 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tzutujil |
| Provenience | Guatemala | San Pedro La Laguna | Department of Solola |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Cotton, woven in two pieces with embroidered joining. Made of stripes in white, red, green, yellow, blue and brown. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 18 epi, 2 singles, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 28 ppi, 2 singles, Z twist, brown cotton, multicolor stripes, various number picks per. Supplemental weft: none. Weft faced plain weave. Made on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 117 cm |
| Width | 95 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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