Loin Cloth

Textile Fragment

30011B

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 30011B
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Cotton | Wool
Description

Zoomorphic, Small Birds, Brocade? Red and brown.

Fragment of woven cloth with 2 bands/stripes of a single-sided bobbin weave (floats on verso). This weaving appears to be over the plain weave base. According to the catalogue card, this is a part of a "loin cloth". Color(s): White, red, tan? and yellow.

Length 10 cm
Width 30 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 2073 - Field No SF

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