Cloth

27540

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 27540
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Locus Found with a mummy
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Cotton. Tattered. Brown with red needle knitted edge

To brittle to unroll. Finely woven plain weave cotton. Able to spot one join along the edge. (poncho?) Edges are bound in red. Color(s): Too brittle to unroll, but it appears that there is a stripe design (both thin and a thicker stripe) going in the warp direction. Unable to identify color. Red bound edge.

Length 33 cm
Width 66 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1005E - Field No SF

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