Cloth
29724
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Curatorial Section: American
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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