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29496

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 29496
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Wool
Description

Fine cloth of gobelin. Made in strips with many small warriors with staff and with two styles of narrow (1/2") borders on the same warp. With a wider (1.75") border at right angles and tapestry-tab fringe. Many fragment (7 pieces)

Fragments of a tapestry weave. When survey was done on 3/2012, there were two large fragments to review. Was not measured. Design is the repetition of panels (a row of figures with headdress and staff flanked by three narrow decorative borders) A row of a border with weft fringe was added. Colors are vibrant and weaving fine. Update: 4/5/2012: a housing was found with 3 textile fragments in it with this number. The box was placed with the other fragments wrapped in tyvek, so they would be near each other. Color(s): Red, yellow, rose, blue, white, brown and black.

Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1163 - Field No SF

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