1966.1.1389

Collection type

Object

Description

Textile fragment

Long description

Square formed of split cane pieces arranged side by side, covered with folded and stitched white textile

Geographical reference

Peru

Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru

Central Coast Ancon

Person

Field collector Frederick George Denham Bedford

PRM source Ipswich Museum

PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler

Date / Period

Date made: 1000-1500?, uncertain Archaeological period: Paracas, uncertain

Date collected

Excavated 1879

Acquisition information

Purchased: 1966

Materials and processes

Material Textile, Material Cane Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Woven

Dimensions

Width 160 mm, Length 155 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1966.1.1389 Other numbers: 1923.107

Research and responses

Notes taken during a research visit by Ann Rowe (Textile Museum Washington) March 2012: Apparently plaques are common at Ancon. [JN 16/05/2012]

Similar to the Paracas 'mummy masks' illustrated by Anton (DOC). Reiss & Stubel (DOC) call these 'sepulchral tablets': they were found stuck into the ground near mummies, or attached to mummies. ( Ref. Anton, F. 1987. ANCIENT PERUVIAN TEXTILES, Figs. 41-42. Reiss, W. & A. Stubel, 1880-1887. THE NECROPOLIS OF ANCON, Pls. 15, 33.)

Textile is white cotton plain weave, apparently with single warps (Z2S) and paired wefts (singles). It is folded diagonally across the cane square. LM. See also 1966.1.1375. Ref. Reiss, W. & A. Stubel 1880-1887, THE NECROPOLIS OF ANCON. For full text of Accession Book introduction (from Collections XVA Ipswich Ethnography A) see entry for 1966.1.1 [OD 15/6/2001].

Search terms: Textile, Death, Religion, Figure, Grave Good, Religious Object, Bird Figure