Utility Cloth
Tzute
42-35-218
From: Guatemala | San Pedro Ayampuc | Department of Guatemala
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Tzute |
| Object Number | 42-35-218 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cakchiquel |
| Provenience | Guatemala | San Pedro Ayampuc | Department of Guatemala |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Date Made | pre 1933 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Silk |
| Description | White cotton cloth with short fringe at both ends. Brocaded band of red, purple and blue-black cotton zigzags and a central black bar. Brocaded with silk discs of deep rose, green and purple. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 26 epi, three singles, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 22 ppi, three singles, Z twist, white cotton. Balanced plain weave. Supplementary weft is two faced. One panel, two selvedged. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 54 cm |
| Width | 58 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 133 - Other Number |
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