Loin Cloth

Textile Fragment

30011A

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 30011A
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Cotton | Wool
Description

Zoomorphic, geometric, bird, chevron. bobbin weave. Red, yellow, brown and white.

Fragment of woven cloth with 3 bands/stripes of a single-sided bobbin weave (floats on verso). This weaving appears to be over the plain weave base. Remnants of a needle-knitted edge. Evidence of what appears to be a join to a plain weave cloth along one of the long edges. According to the catalogue card, this is a part of a "loin cloth". Color(s): White, red, tan? and yellow.

Length 16 cm
Width 20 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 2073 - Field No SF

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