Headband

Textile Fragment

29567

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 29567
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Wool
Description

Bobbin weave

Fragment of a woven textile that appears to be the end of a band. The textile was woven (with decorative bobbin weave stripes), folded in half and bound closed, creating a "tube". According to the catalogue card, this is "one end of a forehead band". Color(s): Black, brown and off-white.

Length 8 cm
Width 5.6 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 3838 - Field No SF

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