textile
- Museum number
- Am1954,05.621
- Description
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Textile; long fragment with fringe; one (weft?) selvedge; plain cotton ground weave (wefts paired in places?); camelid supplementary weft patterning; stepped fret-and-scroll motifs laid out in, and coloured in, zigzag rows; tapestry border at one end; slit; paired cotton warps with camelid wefts (but indigo is cotton?); diagonal interlocked rows of stepped volutes with a row of stepped fret-and-scroll motifs; tapestry tab fringe at one edge; brown and indigo cotton with tan, red, yellow, brown, pink and black camelid fibre.
- Production date
- 900-1430
- Dimensions
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Length: 123 centimetres (including fringe)
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Width: 20.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comparable to Am1921,0321.15
Register addition "Peru".
Register addition "Ica" Register addition "Nazca".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1954,05.621