Tzute
- Museum number:
- 3-41
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030000041
- Alternate number:
- 41 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.47 and Acc.61
- Description:
- Man’s headdress (xute); white cotton; plain weave; brocaded in red and yellow cotton; stitched together with violet silk thread; long red tassels on corners; approximately 65 cm x 60 cm; major motif chickens and corn in inlaid brocade, also two-headed bird; 2 pieces put together
- Donor:
- Gustavus A. Eisen and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Santo Tomas Chichicastenango, El Quiche, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- K'iche' and Maya
- Collector:
- Gustavus A. Eisen
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile) and Silk (floss)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- October 20, 1902
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- length 58.5 centimeters and width 64.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- See Eisen archives in museum.
- Loans:
- S1993-1994 #4: Blackhawk Museums (August 31, 1993–March 16, 1994)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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