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Textile, warp-striped fragment
Textile, warp-striped fragment
Object Number 46-53-30/5475
Display Title Textile, warp-striped fragment
Descriptions
Object Description Fragment of cotton and wool with striped pattern - white, cream , blue and rose-red: Textile portion of plainweave w/warp stripes of blue cotton edged w/2 pink camelid warps, separated by stripes of tan cotton (all z-2s, 10 epcm.). Tan cotton weft (z-2s, 6 epcm.), every (2 cm.) 2 pink camelid wefts cross cloth, floating across blue stripes, forming check pattern. Supplementary warp white cotton woven on 3 wefts at center of each blue check, then carried on back between checks. Remains of white cotton 1-1 plainweave seamed along 1 side, was seamed along other as well. Two weft selvages.
Inventory Description Organic, woven fiber, textile fragment, blue and red stripes, stripes of tan cot
Classification
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Central Coast
  • Late Intermediate period
  • Middle horizon
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru
Additional Geographic Terms Central Coast
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 30 x 19 cm (11 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1

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