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1934.70.20.1

3 textile fragments [.1-.3] from a grave

1934.70.20.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
3 textile fragments [.1-.3] from a grave
Long description
4 fragments of slit tapestry from a grave. White cotton warp (Z2S), camelid fibre weft (Z2S). Lozenge pattern in black, brown, yellow, blue, red and white.
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
Unnamed site of grave
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Puttick and Simpson
Date / Period
Date made: 1000-1476
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
Dimensions
Length: max 100 mm, Length: max 180 mm, Length: max 290 mm, Length: max 350 mm, Width: max 340 mm, Width: max 100 mm, Width: max 150 mm, Width: max 180 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1934.70.20.1 Accession number: 1934.70.20.2 Accession number: 1934.70.20.3 Accession number: 1934.70.20.4
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 has a discontinuous warp. Twisted' [JN 15/4/2003]

Search terms: Textile, Death, Religion, Grave Good