Textile Fragment

29663

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 29663
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Cotton
Technique Embroidered
Description

Embroidered in squares. Checkerboard arrangement design: conventionalized fish.

Fragment of a plain weave cotton cloth, with a supplemental "embroidery" design (most likely added while on loom). One selvage edge and evidence of a join and bound edge. Color(s): White ground and red, blue, pink, green and brown embroidery.

Length 30.5 cm
Width 59 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 3229A - Field No SF

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