Textile Fragment

Poncho Fragment

30029A

From: Peru | Pachacamac

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 30029A
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Part of a poncho. Plain web, first woven, joined to green, brown and red in broad loom stripes ending in a stepped line. STepped loom string of first, paralled by f strand string of second which is also used to sewed up the vertical slits, encircling first and adjoining warps. Evidently covered a mummy. Rough sewing of cotton threads

Length 81.28 cm
Width 45.72 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1272G - Field No SF

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