- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Textile with figures. [JN 16/05/2012]
- Long description
- Complete textile: slit tapestry, cotton warp (Z2S), camelid fibre weft (Z2S) in brown, white, red and yellow. Design of two anthropomorphic figures on yellow and brown grounds, holding implements in their left hands. Between the figures is a long overlapping vertical slit in the tapestry. Above and below the figures are red and yellow plain stripes and bands of geometric decoration in red, brown and yellow. Stitched to the lower selvage is a fringe band: cotton warp, red camelid fibre weft, with cut ends.
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1000-1476 Archaeological period: Chimu, uncertain Archaeological period: Chancay, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1952
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1952
- Materials and processes
- Material Calcrete Stone, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Tapestry Woven, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Width 180 mm, Length 120 mm patterned portion
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1952.7.46
- Research and responses
Attribution to Late Intermediate Period by LM. This piece has characteristics of both Chimu and Chancay textiles and could be either.
Information from Ann Rowe (Curator, The Textile Museum, Washington) based on visit to see our Peru textiles in October 1997: Probably Central Coast, Chancay, Late Intermediate Period. [JN 30/10/1997]
- Associated publications
- Notes taken during a research visit by Ann Rowe (Textile Museum Washington) March 2012: Confirms Chancay attribution. [JN 16/05/2012]
1952.7.46
Textile with figures. [JN 16/05/2012]
1952.7.46
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