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1990.21.7

Textile fragment; from a grave

1990.21.7

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Collection type
Object
Description
Textile fragment; from a grave
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
Near Nasca Cahuachi
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Yvonne K. Zwozdiak-Southall
Date / Period
Date made: 1000-1476?, uncertain
Date collected
By 1990
Acquisition information
Donated: 04/04/1990
Materials and processes
Material Camelid Wool Textile Animal, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Dyed
Dimensions
Length: max 100 mm approx
Object numbers
Accession number: 1990.21.7
Research and responses

This collection (1990.21.1-11) had been in donor's family for some years. She thinks most of the pieces were found together, though this piece and .5 may have been found separately. In Penelope Dransart's opinion they are characteristic of mummy wrappings and on the basis of .7 and .8 could tentatively be assigned to the Late Intermediate Period.

Search terms: Textile, Death, Religion, Grave Good

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