Tzute
- Museum number:
- 3-32072
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030032072
- Alternate number:
- ACW 18 (previous number (collector's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4798
- Description:
- Tzute, Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala.
- Donor:
- Anne Connell Wilson
- Collection place:
- Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- Kaqchikel
- Collector:
- Anne Connell Wilson
- Collection date:
- March 16, 2005
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- April 8, 2016
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- width 98 centimeters and length 144 centimeters
- Comment:
- Purchased from Albertina Lopez Cumez at her home in Santa Catarina Palopó by ACW on March 16, 2005. Woven by a cousin of hers. 1 paper tag and 1 cloth tag attached on back near hem: Paper tag: “ACW #18” Cloth tag: “Purchased from Albertina Lopez Cumez at her home in Santa Catarina Palopó, Dept. Sololá, Guatemala, on March 16, 2005, by A. C. Wilson. Woven by a cousin of hers." Tzute. 2 panels, each with one hemmed end and one finished selvage, connected by decorative stitching (randa) in horizontal purple, green, red, blue, & black bands. Plain weave. Predominately red, brown, & black/dark blue warp stripes. Symmetrical narrow black/dark blue warp stripes, flanked by green warp threads, contain evenly spaced warp ikat “dots”. Overall impression is of reddish-brown cloth.
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