Textile

27623

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 27623
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Culture Area Andean
Locus From loosened soil.
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Piece of blue and brown striped fabric. Loom stripe. In bad condition. Apparently wrapping for a mummy bale.

Large rectangular fragment of loom striped fabric. One seam in the warp direction. A few small ties made out of a bast fiber attached in the interior. Color(s): Brown, blue and tan (white?).

Length 127 cm
Width 66 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 922p - Field No SF

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