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1933.75.19.1

Fragmentary piece of tapestry [.1]. Includes a small lozenge-shaped piece [.2] which was previously cut from it and mounted with 1933.75.17-18.

1933.75.19.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Fragmentary piece of tapestry [.1]. Includes a small lozenge-shaped piece [.2] which was previously cut from it and mounted with 1933.75.17-18.
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
North Coast
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Puttick and Simpson
Date / Period
Date made: 1000-1476?, uncertain Archaeological period: Moche
Date collected
By 1933
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1933
Materials and processes
Material Camelid Wool Textile Animal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Tapestry Woven
Dimensions
Width 390 mm, Length 660 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1933.75.19.1 Accession number: 1933.75.19.2
Research and responses

Attributed to Late Intermediate Period by LM.

Information from Irene Good, Visiting Curator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard, 2003 'This is probably very early Moche, North West Coast' [JN 15/4/2003]

Search terms: Textile

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