Tzute

Museum number:
3-29876
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4405
Description:
Treadle-loomed, weft-faced plain weave, two lienzos machine-stitched together; one end warps cut and hand-hemmed, other end warps cut, create tassels.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
Totonicapán Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Totonicapan, Guatemala
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Production date:
1930s
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Tzute, accession number 3-29876, described as Treadle-loomed, weft-faced plain weave, two lienzos machine-stitched together; one end warps cut and hand-hemmed, other end warps cut, create tassels.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Tzute, accession number 3-29876, described as Treadle-loomed, weft-faced plain weave, two lienzos machine-stitched together; one end warps cut and hand-hemmed, other end warps cut, create tassels.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tzute, accession number 3-29876, described as Treadle-loomed, weft-faced plain weave, two lienzos machine-stitched together; one end warps cut and hand-hemmed, other end warps cut, create tassels.

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