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1933.75.33.1

Textile fragment with embroidered decoration depicting human figures

1933.75.33.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Textile fragment with embroidered decoration depicting human figures
Long description
[1 of] 4 fragments of elaborately embroidered polychrome cloth, conventionalized human figures in black and yellow on red ground.
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
Ica Region Nazca Province
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Puttick and Simpson
Date / Period
Date made: 900 BC - AD 600, uncertain Archaeological period: Paracas
Date collected
By 1933
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1933
Materials and processes
Material Textile, Process Embroidered, Process Woven
Dimensions
Width 320 mm, Length 190 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1933.75.33.1
Research and responses

Information from Irene Good, Visiting Curator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard, 2003: This is probably Paracas rather than Nasca. There is a similar piece at the Peabody Museum. [JN 15/4/2003].

Notes taken during a research visit by Ann Rowe (Textile Museum Washington) March 2012: She confirmed the cultural group as Paracas. [JN 16/05/2012]

Search terms: Textile, Figure

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