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:
- Legacy documentation: