Object Number: Eb948

Collection: World Cultures

Object Name: Clothing

Description: Chullu, hat, knitted in acrylic yarn, with ear flaps , tassel on crown and tasseled braid ties. Crown worked in 5 bands of pattern, 2 narrow with blue ground and white snowflake motif, 3 wide, with livid green snail design/reverse emphasis key design arranged in chevrons, worked over striped multicoloured ground in yellow, blue, green, pink, red and black. Tassels added to two 8 strand oblique interlace braid, one yellow, one black. Knitted by a young man from Lagunillas. May have intended to wear it in the tin'ku fighting at the Fiesta de la Cruz.