Tzute

Museum number:
3-29651
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Alternate number:
WT 235 (original number, temp)
Accession number:
Acc.4405
Description:
Tzute- Woman's: Backstrap-loomed, plain weave. Two-faced supp. weft brocading. Two pieces joined at center by hand stitching. Warps cut, turned and hemmed with a randa.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Nebaj, El Quiche
Culture or time period:
Ixil
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk floss
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
1940s
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 129 centimeters and length 150 centimeters
Comment:
MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES: Backstrap-loomed with cotton singles in white, red, yellow, green, purple. Suppl. weft brocading in cotton: four singles in red, yellow, green, purple and silk floss in white, purple and fuchsia. Geometric: birds and cross iconography. CONTEXT OF USE: Collector's tape tag attached "#40, $15." (sic "$40, $15"). Six large crosses at four corners and at center on each side of the randa. In the center of each cross four birds, one at each corner of the square. Geometric designs all over the cloth. Colored wefts placed in same shed as white wefts create a shadow effect; a very special cloth. CONSERVATION: Good, although soiled.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Tzute, accession number 3-29651, described as Tzute- Woman's: Backstrap-loomed, plain weave. Two-faced supp. weft brocading. Two pieces joined at center by hand stitching. Warps cut, turned and hemmed with a randa.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Tzute, accession number 3-29651, described as Tzute- Woman's: Backstrap-loomed, plain weave. Two-faced supp. weft brocading. Two pieces joined at center by hand stitching. Warps cut, turned and hemmed with a randa.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Tzute, accession number 3-29651, described as Tzute- Woman's: Backstrap-loomed, plain weave. Two-faced supp. weft brocading. Two pieces joined at center by hand stitching. Warps cut, turned and hemmed with a randa.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tzute, accession number 3-29651, described as Tzute- Woman's: Backstrap-loomed, plain weave. Two-faced supp. weft brocading. Two pieces joined at center by hand stitching. Warps cut, turned and hemmed with a randa.

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