- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Textile garment; a tapestry shirt
- Long description
- Yellowish-brown tapestry shirt (.1). Pattern of broad stripes divided by white triangles enclosing geometrical motifs in shades of pink and red. With 2 fragments of same piece, .2-3.
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Tiwanaku Archaeological period: Middle Horizon Archaeological period: Wari
- Date collected
- By 1934
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 27/07/1934
- Materials and processes
- Material Camelid Wool Textile Animal, Process Tapestry Woven
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1934.70.12.1 Accession number: 1934.70.12.2 Accession number: 1934.70.12.3
- Research and responses
In 2014 samples of camelid hair were extracted from 1990.21.8, 1886.2.80.7, 1934.70.40, 1952.7.37, 1952.7.36, 1934.70.1, 1990.21.2, 1934.70.12.1-.3 as part of a project to test the 'Viability of extracting Mitochondrial DNA from Camelid Hair sampled from Archaeological Textiles' at the Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre. According to the report dated 11 November 2004, it was not possible to extract Camelid DNA from the sample. (See report in RDF: Researchers: Haile.) [JC 19 11 2019]
Information from Irene Good, Visiting Curator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard, 2003 'Stepped fret and key design. Single z spun and S ply. Single not double warp' [JN 15/4/2003]
1934.70.12.1
Textile garment; a tapestry shirt
1934.70.12.1
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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