Tzute

Museum number:
3-23459
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Accession number:
Acc.2393
Description:
Man’s tzute (shawl?); red cotton warp face; thin blue warp stripes, 2 widths; heavy varicolored silk brocade center; main color is purple, seamed in silk blocks of same colors with purple tassels at each corner. “New style.”
Donor:
Mrs. Richard S. Robinson and Richard S. Robinson
Collection place:
Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Maya
Collector:
Virginia Wickenden
Collection date:
1923-1925
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1968
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Loans:
S1974-1975 #1: Beatriz Lopez-Wilcox (July 3, 1974–July 8, 1974)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Tzute, accession number 3-23459, described as Man’s tzute (shawl?); red cotton warp face; thin blue warp stripes, 2 widths; heavy varicolored silk brocade center; main color is purple, seamed in silk blocks of same colors with purple tassels at each corner. “New style.”
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tzute, accession number 3-23459, described as Man’s tzute (shawl?); red cotton warp face; thin blue warp stripes, 2 widths; heavy varicolored silk brocade center; main color is purple, seamed in silk blocks of same colors with purple tassels at each corner. “New style.”

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