textile

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Object Type
Museum number: Am1907,0319.5
Description: Fragment; textile featherwork; cotton plain weave ground cloth with paired warps; covered with overlapping rows of feathers, attached by lengths of cotton yarn running across textile securing quills; a design is evident but fragmentary and not discernible; buff cotton with dark brown. white and red feathers.
Cultures/periods: Late Intermediate (?); Late Horizon (?); Colonial (Americas) (?)
Production date: 900-1430
Production place: Made in: North Coast Peru (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Pacasmayo Valley, burial; Found/Acquired: La Libertad (Peru) (?); Found/Acquired: Ancash (?); Found/Acquired: Lambayeque (department) (?)
Materials: cotton; feather
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 28 centimetres; Width: 21.50 centimetres
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1907
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am1907,0319.5

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