Woman's Shawl or Headdress (Tzute)

Textiles

1900/50

Maya
Probably San Tomás Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Maya
Title: Woman's Shawl or Headdress (Tzute)
Place: Guatemala (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1900–1950
Medium: Cotton, silk, and wool, plain weave with brocading wefts; joined with cotton in cretan stitches
Dimensions: 79.1 × 78.7 cm (31 1/8 × 31 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Avrina Pugh
Reference Number: 1971.699

Else Regensteiner, Geometric Design in Weaving (Schiffer Publishing, 1986), 117, fig. 7-6.

Art Institute of Chicago, Folk Art Textiles from the Permanent Collection, Nov. 8, 1980-Mar. 1, 1981.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Mexican, Central, and South American Textiles: A Living Legacy, Oct. 28, 1992-Jan. 17, 1993.

Avrina Pugh, Racine, WI, by Apr. 30, 1971 [Incoming permanent receipt RX8088, Apr. 30, 1971; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.

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