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Object Number 41-90-20/14295
Display Title Man's tzute, or head handkerchief - white with red, green, orange, dark blue & b
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tzute
Object Description Man's tzute, or head handkerchief - white with red, green, orange, dark blue & brown stripes and red, orange, green, & purple embroidered designs
Inventory Description Tzute, rectangular, white with woven multicolored stripes, abstract embrd
Classification
  • Tzute
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / El Quiche / <County> / Santo Tomas Chichicastenango
Dimensions Overall: 66 x 80 cm (26 x 31 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 41-90-20/14295 & #175/Derivation/Speciman & #187/Derivation/Speciman
Credit Line Gift of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1941

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