Textile

Museum number:
3-29989
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4518
Description:
Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; two-faced supp. weft brocading; two pieces joined with hand stitching; all four selvages loom-finished. 123 cm x 115.5 cm. Native name and meaning: Tzute/Multipurpose cloth. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 4 singles, red; 1 two-ply in red, light and dark brown, light and dark green, blue, purple, yellow, and orange; 8 two-ply in brown, light and dark blue, yellow, green, red, orange, and purple. Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun and donated it the museum in 1991. Multicolored warp stripes of varying width on two pieces; large animal motifs of supp. weft at both bottom corners. Iconography consists of: thorned arch, roosters and tree-of-life.
Donor:
Miguel Hun
Collection place:
San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala Dept, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala; San Juan Sacatepequez
Collector:
Miguel Hun
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 3-29989, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; two-faced supp. weft brocading; two pieces joined with hand stitching; all four selvages loom-finished. 123 cm x 115.5 cm. Native name and meaning: Tzute/Multipurpose cloth. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 4 singles, red; 1 two-ply in red, light and dark brown, light and dark green, blue, purple, yellow, and orange; 8 two-ply in brown, light and dark blue, yellow, green, red, orange, and purple. Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun and donated it the museum in 1991. Multicolored warp stripes of varying width on two pieces; large animal motifs of supp. weft at both bottom corners. Iconography consists of: thorned arch, roosters and tree-of-life.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 3-29989, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; two-faced supp. weft brocading; two pieces joined with hand stitching; all four selvages loom-finished. 123 cm x 115.5 cm. Native name and meaning: Tzute/Multipurpose cloth. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 4 singles, red; 1 two-ply in red, light and dark brown, light and dark green, blue, purple, yellow, and orange; 8 two-ply in brown, light and dark blue, yellow, green, red, orange, and purple. Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun and donated it the museum in 1991. Multicolored warp stripes of varying width on two pieces; large animal motifs of supp. weft at both bottom corners. Iconography consists of: thorned arch, roosters and tree-of-life.

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