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1933.75.25

Textile band

1933.75.25

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Collection type
Object
Description
Textile band
Long description
One of 5 bands with complementary-weft patterns, decorative borders cut from larger textiles, possibly shawls. .23 and .24 are probably part of the same textile. Warp of dark blue/grey cotton, weft of camelid fibre in red and yellow. .25 1 end selvage. Pattern of waves and felines.
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
Unknown
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Puttick and Simpson
Date / Period
Date made: 1000-1476?, uncertain
Date collected
By 1933
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1933
Materials and processes
Material Camelid Wool Textile Animal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Woven
Dimensions
Length 395 mm, Width 40 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1933.75.25
Research and responses

Attributed to Late Intermediate Period by LM.

Search terms: Textile

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