Tzute
- Museum number:
- 3-32074
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030032074
- Alternate number:
- ACW 20 (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
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- April 8, 2016
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- length 103 centimeters and width 98 centimeters
- Comment:
- A gift to ACW from Bertina Lopez Cumez of SCP in May 2012. Two paper tags attached to hem: (removed) —“ACW #20” —“Tzute, Guatemala. Given to me by Bertina Lopez Cumez, of Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala, on her stay with me in San Francisco, CA May 2012.” Tzute. 2 panels, one with both ends hemmed, one with one hemmed end and one finished selvage, connected by decorative stitching (randa) in purple, green, blues, and a variegated redbrown. Plain weave. Black warp background supports multicolored warp stripes containing simple warp ikat stripes in black and green, black and blue, black and red, etc.; these warp stripes alternate with representational warp ikat patterning in black and pink, black and green, etc., showing human and possibly plant motifs. Note 7 sections of unpatterned warp at end of one panel. (Detail shot shows several of these unpatterned areas.)
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