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1933.75.10

Textile sheet

1933.75.10

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Collection type
Object
Description
Textile sheet
Long description
Large sheet of fine brown cloth with openwork designs.
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
Unknown
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Puttick and Simpson
Date / Period
Date made: 200 BC - AD 600 Archaeological period: Ocucaje, uncertain Archaeological period: Paracas, uncertain
Date collected
By 1933
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1933
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Woven
Dimensions
Width 2160 mm, Length 2300 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1933.75.10
Research and responses

Information from Ann Rowe (Curator, The Textile Museum, Washington) based on visit to see our Peru textiles in October 1997: Could be Paracas or Ocucaje. Possibly a mantle. Gauze weave with slits. [JN 30/10/1997]

Search terms: Textile, Clothing

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