1934.70.17.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Piece of slit tapestry

Long description

2 pieces of slit tapestry with white cotton warp (S2Z and Z2S) and camelid fibre weft (Z2S) in white, yellow, pink and brown. Chequerboard design: meanders in yellow or brown and white alternate with figures in crescent headdresses on red ground. Vertical slits have been sewn together with cotton yarn. .1 has one end selvage, along which is a border of bird motifs in red and brown on a yellow ground. A length of narrow tapestry band (cotton warp Z2S, camelid fibre weft Z2S) is stitched along part of the selvage.

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: 1000-1476 Archaeological period: Chimu

Date collected

By 1934

Acquisition information

Purchased: 27/07/1934

Materials and processes

Material Camelid Wool Textile Animal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Tapestry Woven, Process Stitched

Dimensions

Length: max 420 mm, Width: max 290 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1934.70.17.1

Research and responses

In the opinion of Susan Bergh, Metropolitan Museum, NY, (visited 19 Oct 1992) this is Late Intermediate Period, not ?Nazca as formerly suggested. Attribution to Chimu by LM on account of slit tapestry technique.

Information from Irene Good, Visiting Curator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard, 2003: Possibly North Coast. [JN 29/4/2003]

Search terms: Textile, Figure, Bird Figure