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Object Number 96-26-30/54901
Display Title Tunic, gauze, plainweave
Descriptions
Object Description Two widths of blue cotton simple gauze with stripes of spaced paired warps alternating with warp-faced stripes. Yarns overspun (warp: (s); weft: (z)). Between the gauze pieces a strip (13 cm., width) of 2-1 brown cotton plainweave. Large overcast stitches of brown cotton join cloths along weft selvages. Warp: brown cotton, (s-pairs), 18 ppcm. Weft: brown cotton, (s), 10 epcm.
Inventory Description Organic, textile fragment, blue gauze, stripes, brown plainweave at center
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Lima Region / Lima Province / Ancon?
Additional Geographic Terms Chillon?
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 79.2 x 80 cm (31 3/16 x 31 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Donated by Estate of Mary T. Hemenway

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