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1933.75.41.1

3 textile fragments [.1-.3]

1933.75.41.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
3 textile fragments [.1-.3]
Long description
3 pieces of a band in brown and cream chequer pattern. There is a tassel at each end bound with brown and blue (faded).
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
Unknown
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Puttick and Simpson
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Chimu
Date collected
By 1933
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1933
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Textile Plant, Process Woven, Process Bound
Dimensions
Width 50 mm, Length 310 mm, Length 380 mm, Length 810 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1933.75.41.1 Accession number: 1933.75.41.2 Accession number: 1933.75.41.3
Research and responses

Information from Irene Good, Visiting Curator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard, 2003. Magnificent turban band. Probably natural blue cotton, undyed. Probably Chimu.

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