Red cloth with bird motives

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The cloth (sut or tzute in Spanish) is woven with cotton in a hip loom. The tzute is a simply woven cloth that can be used for a variety of purposes by both men and women: it can be used to cover the head, shoulders, and arms during ceremonial ceremonies or as protection from the sun; to carry children or groceries; to hold sacred objects and images of saints, store bread, and set tables during ceremonial occasions. \This cloth was worn by a man as a head ornament. The square cloth, consisting of two strips, which are embroidered together, has been embroidered together with a lilac thread. The same thread is used to hem one side with a zigzag stitch. The fringes on three corners are also made from this thread. The cloth is red, with at 8 cm. distance a thin stripe and a thick stripe of white running through it.\ The animal and bird motifs are traditional. Large and small are depicted in horizontal bands. Except for one strip, the animals and birds are depicted facing the center.‖ The embroidery is in lilac with white dots in it.‖ Nahualá is currently a municipality of the department of Sololá. It is located 30 km from Lake Atitlán, 35 km from Sololá and 160 km from the capital (Guatemala City). Nahualá covers an area of 97 km² and is located at 2,467 m above sea level. \The name Nahualá comes from the Nahuatl and Quiché languages. Nahual means mother or protective soul. (espíritu protector) and in Quiché \either means water. Once upon a time in Guatemala there was a great drought, which left all the rivers dry because not a drop of water fell from the sky. Only the river Nahualete still had water in it. People came from far and wide to collect water and bring it to their villages. That's why Nahualá is called the "soul of water". Nahualá is a village, where the population speaks the Quiche language. The last information on the number of inhabitants, is from 2007. In that year Nahualá had 120,693 inhabitants, of which 60,355 were non-Mayans and 60,338 were Mayans.