Backstrap (uncertain)
29736
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29736 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | From a mummy |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Long. Red and white loom pattern, sewed up at both ends. Poorly woven band at each end and knotted together. Long red and white loom patterned textile, sewn shut along the lengthwise direction (web folded in half) with a white whipstitch. Warp ends are also sewn shut with a whipstitch. At each end, there is a long woven band (made from the warp ends?). These are knotted together. Catalogue records identifies this textile as either a "weaver's back strap" or "tump line". Plain weave. Color(s): Red and white . |
| Length | 76 cm |
| Width | 9.5 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 971C - Field No SF |
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