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1934.70.6

Textile bag

1934.70.6

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Collection type
Object
Description
Textile bag
Long description
Rectangular bag of brown cotton sheer fabric (single warps and wefts, all S-spun), brocaded on each side with anthropomorphic figure in crescent headdress in white, pink, yellow and brown camelid fibre (Z2S). Complete textile: side selvage at mouth of bag. Inner bag of undecorated brown cotton sheer fabric. Partly stitched to the mouth of the bag is a strip of fringed brown cotton plain weave; stitched over this is a fringe band with cotton warp (S2Z) and pink camelid fibre weft (Z2S).
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 Brocaded Woven, Process Stitched
Dimensions
Length: max 220 mm, Width: max 200 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1934.70.6
Research and responses

Notes taken during a research visit by Ann Rowe (Textile Museum Washington) March 2012: She confirms that this piece is Chimu. [JN 16/05/2012]

Attribution to Chimu by LM.

Search terms: Bag, Figure

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