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1933.75.44

Textile strip

1933.75.44

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Collection type
Object
Description
Textile strip
Long description
Strip of slit tapestry: alternate squares of (a) red with ?arrowhead pattern (b) brown with birds. Red, brown and buff fringes overlay one another, tassel of same colours at each end of strip. Lined with very loosely woven brown cotton textile.
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: Chimu, uncertain
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
Length x Width 1630 x 120 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1933.75.44
Research and responses

Attributed to Late Intermediate Period by LM.

Information from Ann Rowe (Curator, The Textile Museum, Washington) based on visit to see our Peru textiles in October 1997: Probably Chimu, Late Intermediate Period, North Coast. [JN 30/10/1997] Notes taken during a research visit by Ann Rowe (Textile Museum Washington) March 2012: Possibly a mantle border. Not a brilliant example. [JN 16/05/2012]

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