Headcloth (Tzute)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Sep 2002
label: Collection Date
content: 1955
name: label: Collector
content: Yolanda Hanson
label: Donor Name
content: Yolanda Hanson
notes: label: Notes
content: Handwoven cloth. Down the center is a solid green panel of weft-faced plain weave with a multicolored design woven with supplementary discontinuous wefts. Design includes floral pattern, birds, acorns and leaves, and horses with riders. Selvedge sides have bands of warp stripes, 7.5 cm wide on one side, and 10 cm wide on the other, in blue, red, purple, green, black, and white. Robert Laughlin, curator of Central American ethnology, says "unusual for having both human and angel figures". Locality determined by Ann Rowe, curator at the Textile Museum, and the donor.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: San Antonio Aguascalientes, Sacatepequez Department, Guatemala, Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cakchikel (Kaqchikel) Maya
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2025203
label: USNM Number
content: E430795-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Head Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 106 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 38 cm