Woman's Shawl or Headdress (Tzute)

Textiles

1930/39

Maya
Escuintla, Probably Palín, Escuintla, Guatemala

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Maya
Title: Woman's Shawl or Headdress (Tzute)
Place: Escuintla (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 1930–1939
Medium: Cotton and silk; plain weave formed by single warps and groups of two or six wefts; with supplementary brocading wefts
Dimensions: 85.4 × 81.6 cm (33 5/8 × 32 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Avrina Pugh
Reference Number: 1971.702

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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