Textile Fragment

33755B

From: Peru | Huaca Paraiso

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 33755B
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Huaca Paraiso
Culture Area Andean
Locus At the entrance to the seaward opening valley of Marques (watered by the river of Chillon).
Section American
Materials Cotton | Wool
Technique Embroidered
Description

Loosely woven, light, with partially human figures in balsas and other designs. NB. Figures have tails ending in toes? C: has tassels in pile knot technique at corner

Length 33.02 cm
Width 58.42 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 3489K - Field No SF

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