textile
- Museum number
- Am1954,05.532
- Description
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Textile; large fragment; portion of tunic(?); cotton warp and camelid weft (but some white cotton); two weft selvedges; slit tapestry; columns of figures which read horizontally appear like fish with fin appendages and elaborate tails; vertically they could be standing frontal anthropomorphic figures wearing tiered crescent headdresses. Red, indigos, green, pinks, buff, cream.
- Production date
- 900-1430
- Dimensions
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Length: 48.50 centimetres
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Width: 36.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register addition "Peru".
Register addition "Nazca".
See textile illustrated by Rivero, M.E. and Tschudi, J.J. 1851 in 'Antiguedades Peruanas' 2 vols. Impr. Imperial de la Corte y del Estado, Vienna. (Shown in A.P. Rowe 1984 'Costumes and Featherwork of the lords of Chimor', Textile Museum: Washington D.C. fig.154,p.155.)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1954,05.532