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29623

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 29623
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Tapestry yellow, green, brown, and white. Fringed.

Slit tapestry woven border with a weft fringe. The border is white with blocks of color alternating between green, tan, tan, yellow, each with a tan central bar. It is a slit tapestry weave with slits on the sides of the blocks of color. Below each color block there is a weft fringe. There is stitching on the edge with no fringe likely from where the border was once attached to another textile. Color(s): White, yellow, tan, green, and brown.

Length 185 cm
Width 3.5 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 2071 - Field No SF

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