Cloth
29722
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29722 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | From a mummy bale. Covering of a false head |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Red and white, the white heavier and sparser. Loom strips with floated pattern of interlocking hooks in red. Sewed to plain orange or salmon covered squares, evidently in black arrangement. Three complete sections and one section with a twisted group of yarns. Most likely a square cloth, but this one section is unclear. The red and white section is loom striped with the white heavier yarn forming the striped pattern by floating. The sections are joined together. Connecting yarns are left long. Color(s): Red and white striped section; two peach (salmon colored) sections. |
| Length | 82 cm |
| Width | 75 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 423C - Field No SF |
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