Xute

Museum number:
3-142
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030000142
Alternate number:
142 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.47 and Acc.61
Description:
cap or Xute; also used around the neck; white cotton-gauzy plain weave, inconspicuous orange stipes, brocaded with red and orange cotton; long silk red and orange tassles on ends [handwritten: magenta and gold silk is colored with synthetic dyes (Carlson: See acc. envelope) Photo: see Eisen archive in museum library; see also pg. 87 in Margot Schevill's book
Donor:
Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Santos Tomas, Chichecastenango, El Quiche, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
K'iche' and Maya
Collector:
Gustavus A. Eisen
Collection date:
1902
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk (silk floss tassels)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
October 20, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 43 centimeters and width 50 centimeters
Comment:
See Eisen archive in museum library. See also references below.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Xute, accession number 3-142, described as cap or Xute; also used around the neck; white cotton-gauzy plain weave, inconspicuous orange stipes, brocaded with red and orange cotton; long silk red and orange tassles on ends [handwritten: magenta and gold silk is colored with synthetic dyes (Carlson: See acc. envelope) Photo: see Eisen archive in museum library; see also pg. 87 in Margot Schevill's bookHearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Xute, accession number 3-142, described as cap or Xute; also used around the neck; white cotton-gauzy plain weave, inconspicuous orange stipes, brocaded with red and orange cotton; long silk red and orange tassles on ends [handwritten: magenta and gold silk is colored with synthetic dyes (Carlson: See acc. envelope) Photo: see Eisen archive in museum library; see also pg. 87 in Margot Schevill's bookHearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Xute, accession number 3-142, described as cap or Xute; also used around the neck; white cotton-gauzy plain weave, inconspicuous orange stipes, brocaded with red and orange cotton; long silk red and orange tassles on ends [handwritten: magenta and gold silk is colored with synthetic dyes (Carlson: See acc. envelope) Photo: see Eisen archive in museum library; see also pg. 87 in Margot Schevill's book
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Xute, accession number 3-142, described as cap or Xute; also used around the neck; white cotton-gauzy plain weave, inconspicuous orange stipes, brocaded with red and orange cotton; long silk red and orange tassles on ends [handwritten: magenta and gold silk is colored with synthetic dyes (Carlson: See acc. envelope) Photo: see Eisen archive in museum library; see also pg. 87 in Margot Schevill's book

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