Cloth

29724

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 29724
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Culture Area Andean
Locus Found near a mummy
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Quartered: diagonally placed squares of orange plain weave cloth sewed to squares of red and white loom strips and single faced bobbin weave in black and white fret designs, respectively. For covering the head

Four sections. Four squares make up this "head cloth" with connecting seams. A red and white square and a black and white square are loom striped with a woven brocade design. These brocade squares are placed diagonally from each other. Two orange colored squares, diagonally placed from each other, complete the square cloth. Color(s): Four squares make up this textile (two orange colored, one red and white striped and one black and white striped).

Length 66 cm
Width 63 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 974G - Field No SF

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