Poncho

29987

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Younger Part

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 29987
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Younger Part
Culture Area Andean
Locus From a mummy
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Red-yellow and black poncho of a mummy bale. Discontinuous interlocking warps, in arrangements of diagonal bands with small stepped edges. Seamed down middle.

This poncho is constructed out of two webs (50 - 52 cm wide joined down the center and under arm hole along the sides. Arm holes and bottom edge of poncho is bound in brown. Middle join is connected with red. Color(s): Red with red, yellow and purplish black diagonal bands with stepped edges.

Length 52 cm
Width 107 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1127A - Field No SF

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